Clipping of news on Brazilian Culture, Law and Citizenship
18/2/2010
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It lasted little program "IPI green" the federal government. Because the decision of the minister, Guido Mantega, to work with a higher goal of a primary surplus of public sector accounts in 2010, the policy of reduction in Excise Tax for white goods (stoves, refrigerators, washing and tanquinhos) and cars linked to criteria of lower emissions and greater energy savings was abandoned by the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
But not to lose the green flag in this election year - which already has a candidate profile environmentalist, the former minister Marina Silva - the economic team is preparing a study with proposals for economic and tax incentives to develop environmentally friendly alternatives in the automotive sector .
The work, which will be published in July, will not, however, transformed into effective action by the government this year. The goal is to make proposals to make Brazil a platform for the production of clean technology and a reference in terms of combination of economy and environment.
The Secretary for Economic Policy of the Ministry of Finance, Nelson Barbosa, denied that the economic policy with an environmental focus has been something to "see English, formatted just a mechanism to give a strong speech to the Brazilian government at the climate conference in Copenhagen ( Cop-15) held in late 2009, just as the economic team decided to renew the tax cuts, but with the bias environment. He said the government initiatives in this area marked a paradigm shift that will increasingly guide the actions of economic policy, this and future governments.
Faced with the need to curb the risk of overheating the economy, which could put pressure on prices and interest rates, the government's option now is to make a greater tax saving is not achieved to a setting of imbalance between supply and demand in the economy, says Barbosa.
- For macroeconomic reasons, could not continue with the environmental policy.
Source: R7
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