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08/30/2012
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As Telebrasil were paid in the first half of this year R$ 29.7 billion in taxes.
The users of telecommunications services already paid for the first half of this year R$ 29.7 billion in taxes, which were directly levied on citizens and impacted the prices of services in more than 46%. This means that every hour were paid R$ 6.8 million in taxes, according to the balance of the Brazilian Association of Telecommunications (Telebrasil). Since 2000, taxes on these services now total R$ 453 billion.
The total taxes paid in the first half is 32% higher than the same period last year. This collection does not include taxes levied on economic activity of providers. That is, after all the infrastructure in place and the taxes paid by companies for their deployment, the citizen still collect taxes on services consumed by it.
In a phone bill, for example, where the service is R$ 100, the total amount to be paid is R$ 146 in average. This volume of taxes is the result of one of the largest tax burdens in the world and mainly penalizes the population of lower income groups, which pays the same tax rates, even for small value accounts.
In some states, the amount paid is much higher, reaching R$ 167, depending on the rate of ICMS in Brazil, it ranges from 25% to 35%. Only from January to April of 2012, R$ 10.6 billion in taxes collected were paid to state governments, as ICMS.
The amount of GST collected on telecommunication services has increased dramatically in the past 15 years, not only by increasing the base upon which tax is imposed, but also by increasing the rate of VAT, a path contrary to policies encouraging expansion of services . Of privatization, the total collected with the ICMS grew eight times, twice the GDP growth in the period.
Popular broadband
Although it was created a rule to encourage internet services at high speed, providing a popular broadband offering up to 1 Mega for R$ 29.90, membership is still small. Of the total of 27 states, only 10 have signed the Convention and 38 of the regulated Confaz, which provides exemption from VAT for these plans. The ten states are Espírito Santo, Goiás, Pará, Paraíba, Paraná, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Roraima, Santa Catarina and São Paulo.
Five other states - Acre, Amapá, Ceará, Rio Grande do Sul and Sergipe - and the Federal District have also joined the agreement, but for the exemption to be effective you need to regulate it. Other States - Alagoas, Amazonas, Bahia, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Rondônia and Tocantins - did not join the agreement.
Source: Telesíntese
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