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Revenue regulating program that extends the term maternity

25/1/2010

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Companies may join the 'Corporate Citizen' from Monday (25).
Extended license for six months will be waived from income tax.

The Internal Revenue Service issued on Friday (22) in the Official Gazette the normative No. 991, regulating the Corporate Citizen Program, which allows the extension of the period of maternity leave for private sector workers four months to six months.
The extent of the benefit of there being only so far, for civil servants.

Companies may join the program from next Monday (25) through the body of the page on the Internet.
"It's an option the company in its relations with its employees. [...] This negotiation is between the employee and company," said Marcelo Lins de Albuquerque, general coordinator of Collection and Recovery of Revenue.

However, workers who are already on maternity leave have only until this Friday (22) to ask employers to extend the deadline, according to the organ.

Limitations

The IRS also said that the rule applies only to companies that opt for the regime of profit, ie, the 150 thousand large companies in the country.
The 3 million businesses of the Simple and the 1.4 million who use the system of deemed income will not be able to join the Corporate Citizen.

"These are big companies in the country might choose. But they concentrate 40% to 50% of workers," said Joao Paulo Martins, coordinator of the national collection.

Under the rules, he said, the maid who want to extend the maternity leave is 30 days after the birth of the child, to make the undertaking.
The benefit can only be extended, however, if the company is registered in the program.

"The first four months [maternity leave] are paid by the company, but are offset by the INSS [social security]. The two-month extension will not be compensated but will be slaughtered Income Tax. Companies may deduct from the end of
year, "said Joao Paulo Martins.



Source: G1

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