Source: ESHoje - Vitória / ES - ECONOMY - 30/11/2009

Minister Miguel Jorge (Development, Industry and Foreign Trade) criticized this Monday (30) the bureaucratic structure that prevails in the country today and rejected new exemptions or extensions of those already existing for the IPI (Tax on Industrialized Products). According to him, the bureaucratic structure, which is already 30 or 40 years old, creates "difficulties" to "sell facilities".

“It is impossible for a country to generate jobs and income if you are subject not to the laws, but to resolutions, circulars, interpretations of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th levels of bureaucracy, which often create difficulties for, as we all know, selling facilities” , said the minister at the exit of the 8th Construbusiness - Brazilian Construction Congress, organized by Deconcic (Department of the Construction Industry) of Fiesp (Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo).

He did not spare the government, saying that the State's initiatives to overcome bureaucracy could be adopted more quickly than it is being done. “I imagine that in 2010 we should already have these recommendations (against bureaucracy). We should as a government act much more quickly than we have done so far, ”he said.

The concern is in the short time that the country has to organize itself in order to host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.

IPI

About the IPI, Miguel Jorge said that the government no longer intends to extend the exemption to any other sector, as well as has no plans to extend the benefits to other production chains, as recently done for the furniture industry.