Tag: Tax Simplification

Closing of micro and small companies can be done in three days

Debureaucratization measures for the benefit of small businesses are expected to be announced next week by President Dilma Rousseff. The possibility of editing a provisional measure is also studied, setting the readjustment of the income tax table at 6,5%.

The Planalto effort aims to reverse the government's declining popularity and the imminent release of the list of parliamentarians and other officials to be investigated in Operation Lava Jato.

Still this week, the president will analyze a proposal that creates transition bands for companies to gradually leave Supersimples, a tax system that reduces the tax burden by up to 40%. It is the project Grow Without Fear by Minister Guilherme Afif Domingos.

In the case of reducing bureaucracy, this is to facilitate the closing of companies in Brazil, considered as one of the worst countries in the world in a business environment in the World Bank's Doing Business Report.

Through a computer program, the entrepreneur can do this over the internet in three minutes. There are 1,2 million inactive companies that have not been closed due to excessive bureaucracy.

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Source: site contabeis.com.br (20/02)

 

With new tax regime, Supersimples should reach 450 thousand new companies

Simple nationalThe year 2015 started with something new for at least 450 thousand Brazilian micro and small companies that could be included in Supersimples, based on the changes promoted in their taxation regime. Most of them are service activities that, in 2015, can benefit from a reduction of up to 40% in the tax burden. In addition, they will also enjoy the benefits of reducing bureaucracy resulting from the unification of eight taxes - municipal, state and federal - in a single payment slip.

In interviews with the press, the Minister of the Secretariat for Micro and Small Business, Guilherme Afif Domingos, said he believed that “the regime will change the lives of many Brazilians and that micro and small entrepreneurs will have more time to produce and sell”.

Since November 1, 2014, companies have started to choose the new regime. To join Supersimples, it is necessary to be within the billing ceiling, the value of which varies from State to State and is related to the participation in the Brazilian GDP. The limit goes from R $ 1,26 million in Amapá, for example, to R $ 3,6 million in São Paulo.

For ETCO's Executive President, Evandro Guimarães, the new regime may contribute to the expansion of the formalization of small businesses in the country. “In addition to avoiding high tax burdens, micro and small people often ended up opting for informality due to the difficulties to deal with tax bureaucracy, and also with the complicated processes for starting a business. ”

According to experts, the new rules of Supersimples, which underwent 81 changes in relation to the previous project, will also promote a significant reduction in the time to open or close a company, due to the reduction of bureaucracy linked to these processes.

Companies can switch to Simples Nacional until 30/01

simple nationalMicro and small companies that wish to change their current taxation regime and join Simples Nacional have until January 30 to make the option. Otherwise, they will only be able to migrate to the simplified taxation model in early 2016. The alert was made at a seminar by Grupo Sage, held last Thursday (15) in Rio de Janeiro.

“Companies that fall under Simples Nacional should not leave the option for the system for the last minute. Especially if there are pending issues with the Tax Authorities ”, says Valdir de Oliveira Amorim, tax consultant at IOB Sage. The new companies, opened in 2015, have 30 days after the last registration (municipal or state) to request inclusion in Simples.

 

Source: SEGS.COM.BR (20/01)

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Project expands benefits of the National Microenterprise Statute

Deputy Luiz Carlos Hauly PSDB-PR
Deputy Luiz Carlos Hauly (PSDB-PR)

The Chamber of Deputies analyzes Complementary Bill 418/14, by deputy Luiz Carlos Hauly (PSDB-PR), which proposes several changes to the National Statute of Micro and Small Enterprises (Complementary Law 123/06). One of them allows the craft industries of spirits, wines, beers and liqueurs to fit into Supersimples.

Source: Plantão News (21/01)

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Change in Simples will bring tax waiver of R $ 3,9 billion

Guilherme Afif Domingos, New Minister of Microenterprise.
Guilherme Afif Domingos, New Minister of Microenterprise.

The government will send Congress a package to make it easier to collect taxes from companies covered by the Simples Nacional program. According to the Minister of Micro and Small Business, Guilherme Afif Domingos, there will be a loss of annual revenue of 3,94 billion reais with these new measures proposed. This is because a “transition ramp” for tax collection will be created as the revenue of these companies grows. Thus, the government will stop charging a higher number of higher rates and reduce the contribution ranges within the Simples from twenty to seven.

"We are aware of the current fiscal precariousness, but we are sure that the growth of companies will offset the loss of revenue," said Afif. If approved by June, the new rules would become effective in 2016.

The Secretariat of Micro and Small Business calculates that, if businessmen from commerce, industry and services registered in Simples register an average growth of 4,2% per year, the eventual tax waiver would be zeroed out by the increase in collection resulting from the increase in revenue.

Source: Veja.com - 08/01

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President re-elected talks about the need for Tax Reform

In an interview with Jornal Nacional, re-elected President Dilma Roussef spoke, among other issues, about the need for Tax Reform.

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In an interview with “Jornal Nacional”, the president stated that she tried to make a tax reform during her first term in the Planalto Palace. Dilma said she believes that the discussion on the topic needs to be carried out “in depth”, since the federal government has adopted some measures in recent years that, according to her, were criticized, such as the payroll exemption.

The re-elected president also declared that there is a “distributive conflict” in the country due to the discussion between the states about who thinks they lose and who thinks they will win with the tax reform. "I am convinced that Brazil needs tax reform and needs to simplify taxes", said the president, criticizing what she called "fiscal war". "It is a challenge that I will have to face," he said.

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Expansion of Supersimples becomes law

(Diário de Pernambuco - 29/10)

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"Tax reform has already started with Supersimples", says Minister Afif Domingos.

The chief minister of the Secretariat of Micro and Small Business, Guilherme Afif Domingos, said in an interview that the new term of re-elected president Dilma Rousseff (PT) already begins with the tax reform in progress, with the new Supersimples Law, approved this year by the National Congress and which comes into force as of January 1. "This is the big tax reform, we started with Supersimples", highlighted the minister.

The complementary law that universalizes Supersimples was signed on August 7 of this year by President Dilma Rousseff, establishing a differentiated taxation system for micro and small companies that unifies eight taxes collected by the federal, state and municipal governments in a single bill and reduces, on average, the tax burden by 40%. In addition, it provides for speeding up the processes of opening and closing companies. According to data from the World Bank, this process in the country could last more than one hundred days and with the new law, everything will be done in just one counter and within the maximum period of five days.

The criterion for adhering to the new system will be annual sales, with a ceiling of R $ 7,2 million for companies that export and R $ 3,6 million for those that operate in the national market. The change is expected to benefit 142 categories and about 450 thousand developments.

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Government must propose tax changes after the second round

The government is working to implement a tax reform later this year, with the simplification of PIS, Cofins and the unification of ICMS, but none of these measures should come out before the second round, said the Minister of Finance , Guido Mantega, this Monday (13th).

Source: FOLHA.UOL - 13/10

 

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