Since 2003, when it was founded, ETCO has participated in several projects that have contributed to improving the business environment in the country. See some of the main ones.

ELECTRONIC INVOICE

We contributed to the design, implementation and improvement of the Electronic Invoice project, which began to take effect in 2006. The system improved inspection, reduced tax evasion and reduced costs for tax authorities and companies.

SUPERVISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS

We help develop mechanisms to control the manufacture of products with high potential for tax evasion, such as the Cigarette Production Control and Tracking System (Scorpios) and the Beverage Production Control System (Sicobe).

UNDERGROUND ECONOMY INDEX

In partnership with the Brazilian Institute of Economics of Fundação Getulio Vargas (IBRE-FGV), we created the Underground Economy Index, which measures the size of the Brazilian informal economy since 2003.

SPECIAL TAXATION SCHEMES

We support the submission and approval, by means of a Constitutional Amendment, of Article 146-A of the Federal Constitution, which authorizes the creation of differentiated tax collection systems for taxpayers who adopt tax practices that are unfair to competition, and we support the regulation of this constitutional provision with the approval of PLS ​​284/17.

JOINING FORCES FOR THE LEGAL MARKET

In partnership with the National Forum to Combat Piracy and Illegality (FNCP), we created the Movement in Defense of the Brazilian Legal Market, which joins forces to act in a coordinated manner in the fight against smuggling, piracy, fraud and counterfeiting of products and defends border control actions. The Movement has the support of seventy entities. In the scope of cities, also in partnership with the FNCP, we created the Legality Movement, which unites forces from civil society, city halls, the Federal Revenue, the Federal Police, Parliament, state agencies and the National Front of Mayors, to effectively fight and the illegal market in Brazilian cities.

STUDIES, SEMINARS AND PUBLICATIONS

We sponsor dozens of research, events and books on topics related to ethics, including the Culture of Transgressions in Brazil series, which brings together contributions from great Brazilian thinkers, including the sociologist and former President of the Republic Fernando Henrique Cardoso.

INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE

We are part of committees that fight illegal transnational practices that lead to unfair competition. In 2016, we participated in the foundation of the Latin American Anti-Smuggling Alliance (ALAC), which brings together civil society entities and government bodies from fifteen Latin American nations in the search for joint actions to stop smuggling in the region, assuming the pro-tempore presidency in 2018. We present within Mercosur the need to integrate actions among member countries to combat smuggling; in 2017, we started to act in this sense also at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and, in 2019, at the meeting of the Task Force Against Illicit Market of the OECD.

FIGHTING PIRACY AND CRIME AGAINST INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

We participate in the National Council for Combating Piracy and Crimes against Intellectual Property (CNCP), an intelligence agency of the Federal Government's Ministry of Justice, composed of representatives of the public and civil society and dedicated to combating these crimes.

RECOGNITION FOR ETHICAL COMPANIES

We are part of the management committee of Pró-Ética, a program to recognize companies committed to ethics in their relations with the public sector. Pró-Ética was created in 2010 by the Ministry of Transparency, Inspection and General Comptroller of the Union (CGU), in partnership with the Ethos Institute.