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19/03/2013
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Mariana Tokarnia
Brazil Agency Reporter
Brasília - Private schools ask the basic exemption from payroll to increase investments in education. Representatives of institutions negotiate with the federal government a legal framework that benefits them directly and ask for the inclusion of these schools in the amendment that deals with the exemption of private institutions of higher education, which is being discussed at the Joint Committee on Federal Congress. According to the National Federation of Private Schools (Fenep), the exemption could generate a reduction in tuition fees.
The discussion begins with the Provisional Measure (MP) 582/12 that allows some sectors of the economy replacing the traditional social security contribution, equivalent to 20% of payroll, for a contribution based on rates of 1% to 2% of gross revenues, from 2013 to 2017. With the approval of the Congress MP, a new measure aimed at broadening the beneficiaries, the MP 601/12 extends the exonerations to civil construction and retail, and included the amendment of Mr Vacarezza Cândido (PT-SP), the institutions private higher education.
On Wednesday (20), the Joint Committee of MP 601/12 meets and private schools will press for inclusion of institutions. "The government can stimulate consumption with relief, why not do the same with education? Values can be transformed into scholarships, increase in salary or even a monthly reduction of students," says President National Federation of Private Schools (Fenep), teacher Amábile Pacios. She said the schools have about 70% of operating cost sheet.
Representatives of higher education institutions believe that the inclusion of primary schools can "complicate substantially." "You have to separate the two steps. Needs are different and efforts should be made different for primary and higher education," says the executive director of the Brazilian Association for the Development of Higher Education (Abraes), Elizabeth Guedes. The association represents major education groups traded as Estacio, Kroton, Devry Brazil, Anhanguera and Laureate.
Regarding higher education, Elizabeth says that 65% to about 100% (in the case of charities) revenues of companies is directed to the payroll and that the exemption would represent an increase in investments of up to $ 1 billion year. She said there should be a legal requirement that investment is made in improvements in teaching.
"Even if institutions declare, informally, that will drive investments for improvements in education, at no time was debate within the project, the destination. From our experience, it will not happen, [the investment] will be reversed in profit for owners of the institutions, both in the case of educational institutions as a basic top, "says the coordinator of the secretariat of Educational Affairs of the National Confederation of Workers in Education Establishments (Contee), adhesion Bezerra Hostin.
Also this week, the Contee meets to calculate what it would cease to raise with the institutions of education. Regarding higher education, are the confederation advises that benefited from a number of exemptions. With Law 12.688/12, the Program of Incentives to the Restructuring and Strengthening of Institutions of Higher Education (Proies), institutions can renegotiate tax debts with the federal government, making up 90% of the debt in scholarships, reducing payment in cash 10% of the total due. The institutions were able to exchange R$ 25 billion in debt by about 560 thousand scholarships. Tax expenditures with the accession to the University for All Program (ProUni) should reach R$ 1 billion in 2013.
Editing: Fabio Massalli / / Matter changed to 18/03/2013 11h23 the day to correct information. The previously reported percentage refers to the payroll tax relief and not the reduction of fees, such as text reported. The title was also changed
Source: Agency Brazil
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