Haddad says that maintenance of the tax framework ‘depends much more on Congress’

Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said in an interview with Globethat the maintenance of the tax framework today depends much more on Congress due to the power accumulated by the legislature in recent years.

The holder of the folder saying does not give up anything for better the outcome of public accounts, but recalled that the country has have structural primary deficit since 2015, through governments of Dilma Rousseff (PT), Michel Temer (MDB), Jair Bolsonaro (today PL) and Lula (PT).

“There is no silver bullet to solve a problem of the size of Brazil. Since 2015, we have been with structural deficit. We want to win this stage, but it depends much more on Congress. Today we live an almost parliamentarism. Who gives the last word about all this is Congress. to tear down?” And drop, ”said the minister when asked what he will do to keep the framework standing.

By approving the fiscal adjustment package last year, for example, the congress has reduced the impact of the measures by changing aspects of the Continuing Benefit Benefit (BPC) of the Federal District Constitutional Fund, among others.

The legislature has not yet considered the project that moves in military retirements and establishes the minimum age of 55 years.

Haddad believes power has changed hands and blamed this in former President Jair Bolsonaro.

“There is an institutional change in the country. Power is changing hands. This happened in the Jair Bolsonaro government, which outsourced the government to Congress. There was no shortage of base. It was a little more balanced today, but it is far from what it has already been.

For this year, the farm hopes that Congress will take advantage of the project that raises income tax exemption to $ 5,000 with the increase in the minimum tax paid by those who receive more than $ 50,000.