Cintra says the cuts in System S resources will begin immediately

The future Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, has given his goal to halve the resources of System S, the real-time information system Grupo Estado Broadcast, of l & # 39; economist Marcos Cintra. the special office of the Internal Revenue Service. According to him, the process will be progressive but begin "immediately".

"Much of what System S does can be done competitively by the market, and we will preserve activities with the characteristics of public goods," he said. The rest of the activities, such as training, the market serves well, said Cintra.

The future secretary felt that "everything is open to the re-evaluation of the future government." President Jair Bolsonaro represents renewal. And the Minister Paulo Guedes will be the instrument of this process, "he said.

According to Cintra, the future government of System S will pay the corporate payroll to boost the creation of new companies. Focusing on the drafting of the tax reform proposal, Cintra stated that MP Luiz Carlos Hauly's draft (approved by a special commission) had many points in common.

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"I am working hard on the government project. The project approved in the House differs from what we think. In 1961, the increasing judiciarization of the tax system, as in the case of PIS / Cofins, is the result of its complexity and bureaucracy.

"We will work on both fronts at the same time," he said, pointing out that in the short term

the future secretary had declared that the government's first task was to make the system more functional when discussing and approving tax reform. the priorities will be: simplification, debureaucratisation, improvement of processes and procedures. "There is much to be done to improve and remove privileges and ensure more efficiency in the market, by leveling the field of action between companies."

Cintra predicted that the productive sector will soon feel improvements resulting from these short-term measures, while "fundamental reform", which involves federal issues that need to be re-examined, is discussed.