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07/31/2015
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Prohibited by Resolution 1989 practice is adopted by trade
Text should go to plenary on the 5th - FreeImages
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BRASILIA - Cash payment, in cash, have discount? Today prohibited the practice can be regularized: the Legislative Decree 31/2013, the Senate must be voted in the plenary of the House on June 5, Wednesday. The text, authored by Senator Roberto Requiao (PMDB-PR), suspends the extinct 34/1989 Resolution of the National Council of Consumer Protection (CNDC), which prohibits price variations.
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The proposal has a favorable opinion of the rapporteur, Lidice da Mata (PSB-BA), for whom the resolution violates individual rights and creates an obligation without constitutional or legal basis. Requiao argues that prohibit the variation ends up increasing the values of commodities.
- Prohibited to charge more than those bought with card, traders did the obvious: increased commodity prices. And the same price took effect for all purchasing modalities - explained.
Senator argues that although the values are the same in both methods of payment, those who purchase with a credit card can be rewarded with points from frequent flyer programs.
- The most economically unfortunate pay the same price for the same purchase for cash without being given any advantage in return. This is an affront to the right of citizens to pay less for goods and hurts the free exercise of economic activity - she said.
IMPACT FOR CONSUMERS
The Secretary of the National Consumer Bureau (Senacon), Juliana Pereira, said he feared damage just for low-income consumers. In assessing her eventual overprice for card purchases penalize people who use credit cards to supplement income - explained.
Discount is forbidden, but applied by trade - FreeImages
The president of the Trade Federation (Fecomércio), Adelmir Santana said to be favorable to the project:
- Prices are inflated because of this resolution, and if the project is approved, those who buy with money will be able to pay less than the person buying with a credit card. The suspension of the resolution will end up also decrease the price of purchases made by credit card - believe.
Through its advisory, Roberto Requiao said those who defend the resolution "is defending the credit card companies or do not know the reality." The intention of the project, maintains, is to give the trader the right to tell the consumer that he can give you a discount on the value of the goods if the purchase is made in cash.
Source: Reuters
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