Due to the impact it is bringing to rural producers and small and medium-sized slaughterhouses, the Brazilian Association of Refrigerators (Abrafrigo) issued a note on Thursday (06), supporting a further extension of the deadline for joining the Rural Refis, December 31, 2018.
In 2010, the STF considered the collection of Funrural unconstitutional and, based on this decision, the productive sector stopped paying the tax. In 2018, the STF changed its mind and made the collection constitutional, creating an eight-year liability for the producer that, in the entity’s view, “is totally unfair.”
According to Abrafrigo, President-elect Jair Bolsonaro made several statements against this charge, saying that this account is not from the rural producer and “then we believe that this discussion needs to be taken to the next government,” said the executive president of the entity, Péricles Salazar . “The producers have no ability to pay this liability, something close to R $ 2 billion, accumulated over eight years. In addition, the deadline is very short, “he explained.
The entity also praised the approval by the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday (05) of the urgency request of the bill that ends the funrural debts, authored by deputy Jerônimo Goergen (PP-RS), which now will now preference for voting.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.