Obstacle in the Ports Provisional Measure, Cunha also raises concerns regarding the ICMS (Tax on Circulation of Goods and Services).
A member of the PMDB party is seen as the main culprit behind the delayed vote on the port sector reform; next week, he will again face the Dilma government with a request for urgency to vote on the bill that validates the tax incentives already granted and renegotiates the debts of the states.
247 - Considered the main villain in the vote on the Ports Provisional Measure, the leader of the PMDB party, Eduardo Cunha (RJ), is preparing a new battle against the government in Congress: the reform of the Tax on the Circulation of Goods and Services (ICMS).
The PMDB member is the rapporteur for the bill that validates the tax incentives already granted and renegotiates the debts of the states.
Next week, he will submit an urgent request to expedite the processing of the bill. "After the port crisis, I will accelerate the (ICMS) project. Voting in the committees is a waste of time," Cunha stated in a report by "O Estado de S. Paulo".
The government rejects at least six points raised by parliamentarians in the ICMS reform. The first is the creation, through a constitutional amendment, of a compensation fund for states for losses resulting from the reform – whether created by a provisional measure or a complementary law.
There is also no prospect of an agreement on the bill that changes the index used to calculate the debts of states and municipalities renegotiated with the federal government, and that alters the quorum of the National Council of Finance Policy (Confaz) for deliberations on tax incentives, which is part of the ICMS reform package.