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Brazil: Proposal of tax exemption on agrochemicals is cancelled
Aug. 12, 2014
The exemption of taxes on agrochemicals in Brazil was excluded from the Proposed Constitutional Amendment (PEC) 491/2010. The author of the bill, federal representative Luiz Carlos Hauly, agreed to exclude some taxes exemption on food and its production after a public hearing. The PEC aims to exempt the taxes on food and medicines.
During the public hearing, the participants have criticized the representative from São Paulo. In the opinion of some experts, the taxes on agrochemicals should be an instrument to stimulate a more environmentally correct practice as well as a consumption control of such products that could harm human and animal health.
The member of the National Forum of Agrochemicals Impact Combat, Pedro Luiz Gonçalves Serafim da Silva said the issue needs a differentiated treatment, but not in the same law. The professor of the Federal University of Mato Grosso, Wanderley Pignati, noted that Brazil is one of the largest consumers of agrochemicals in the world. He highlighted that only in 2012 the country consumed 1 billion tons pesticides, which impact human and animal health.
For Luiz Carlos Hauly, author of the proposal, the exclusion of the exemption on agrochemicals is "not important", for the focus of the bill is food and medicines. "I hope the country evolves, but in a context of sustainability, also for the next generations. We should not lose the opportunity of using instruments like these", concluded Hauly.
Source: AgroNews
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