Around 100,000 companies can benefit from the bill

On Wednesday (11/26), the Committee for Economic Development, Industry and Commerce approved the Complementary Bill 379/08, proposed by the Deputy Antonio Carlos Mendes Thame (PSDB-SP), which increases the amount of companies that are entitled to benefit from the Simples Nacional Program (Supersimples). The proposal progressively increases the ceiling limit of the gross income required for the company to join that system.

Supersimples is a program that has prevailed since July 2007, according to the Complementary Law 123/06. It consists of the unified collection of 8 taxes, by means of the application of a global rate from 4% to 17.42% on the gross income of the micro or small companies, depending on their sector and sales.

According to data from the Internal Revenue Service, around 100,000 companies sell from R$2.4 million to R$7 million, and can therefore be benefited by the bill. Nowadays, more than 3 million companies have joined
Simples Nacional.

In order for a micro company or small company to join Supersimples today, it should have a maximum yearly gross income of R$2.4 million. The bill increases that limit to R$ 3million in January 2011; R$5 million in 2013; and R$7 million in 2015.

The rapporteur on the subject at the committee, Deputy Guilherme Campos (DEM-SP), defended the approval of the measure. “The classification of a company in the simplified and favored regime of the Simples Nacional allows to attenuate the comparative disadvantages of that important economic segment, to incentive them and to reap the financial benefits of a greater generation of jobs and income, with more social justice”, he said.

Lower impact
The congressman affirmed that, according to his evaluation, the gradual broadening of the limits of classification, which will be applied every two years, allows to attenuate the short-term impacts of the three incorporations. “Moreover, it favors those companies that grow in a significant manner, because of the economic advantages related to the regime they are entitled to, because they can stay inside the legal limits to integrate it”.

Procedure
The bill, which is processed in priority character, will now be analyzed by the committees for Finances and Taxation; for Constitution and Justice and Citizenship, before going to the House Floor.

From the Newsroom/SR/Rejane Xavier