Marketer Suggests Increased Bet Tax to Reduce IOF Impact and Says There Is Room for Selic Reduction

For Murillo de Aragão, political scientist and CEO of Arko Advice, the tension generated around the Financial Operations Tax (IOF) reveals the “a concrete lack of a strategy [by the federal government] to deal with a fiscal problem that is rising and has a fairly critical scenario for the next few years”. The IOF's height has been presented as a measure to increase the government's recovery. The expectation is for an extra revenue of more than $…

The president of the BNDES, Aloizio Mercadante, proposed an increase in tax on the Bets, the deposit platforms, to reduce the impact of the IOF increase. Mercadante said that business entities should stop making statements and making proposals, defending that Minister Fernando Hadddad cannot be alone in the defence of the tax and delivery of the targets. In the evaluation of the BNDES president, there is room for reduction of the Selic. He still…

The President of the BNDES, Aloizio Mercadante, stressed that the IOF generates recovery, while the Selic generates debt