O Senate should vote, this Thursday (2), the bill that predicts the use of tax credits collected by distributors of electrical energy as a way of reduce the value of the electricity bill of Brazilians.
To proposal (PL 1280/22), authored by senator Fábio Garcia (UNIÃO/MT), was included in the Agenda of the plenary and defends the transfer of the full value of these credits, which total around R$60 million.
The amounts to be retained by the distributors would be those related to legal actions that have become final and unappealable regarding the undue collection of ICMS (Tax on Circulation of Goods and Services) in the calculation basis for contributions to PIS/PASEP and COFINS.
“This money is a tax that energy consumers overpaid for many years and that the STF (Supreme Federal Court) decided they could not pay. Therefore, this tax generated a credit that belongs to the consumer and must be used in full to reduce the electricity bill”, says Garcia.
The text also provides that the ANEEL (National Electric Energy Agency) performs the full compensation of the credits enabled before the Federal Revenue Service. “The allocation of resources will be made in the first tariff process subsequent to the qualification of the tax credit before the competent tax authority”, highlights the parliamentarian.
Last week, the Senate Infrastructure Committee heard the energy distributors on the subject. The public hearing was requested by Senator Fábio Garcia himself and was attended by of the MME (Ministry of Mines and Energy), the ANEEL and the Federal Revenue Service.
