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42 statements · 1 politicians · November 5, 2025
Statements by Flavio Bolsonaro. 42 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Fiscal Reform, Tariff Policy, Public Service, Social Policy.
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About: approve the bill in a vote
Mr. President, to everyone watching us, it is obvious that our vote will be in favor of this bill, not least because it was also a campaign promise of President Bolsonaro.
About: amend the bill's text
But, certainly, the text would not be this one, my noble President Davi Alcolumbre, because of some very significant differences that Your Excellencies will see here.
- Neutral
About: reduce taxes uniformly across society
The Bolsonaro Government had the habit of relentlessly pursuing tax reductions.
- Neutral
About: implement digital government for public services
It increased revenue with an organized government, the second most digital country in the world, with hundreds of public services concentrated in the Gov.br app.
- Neutral
About: increase the value of the social benefit (Auxílio Brasil/Bolsa Família)
It was this way that President Bolsonaro managed to triple the value of Bolsa Família, which averaged R$190 and went to R$600, the current value, without raising taxes.
So, look at the difference with the current Government.
The Bolsonaro Government looked at those people who prospered in life, because they are the people who create jobs, Senator Jaime Bagattoli.
Those who create jobs are the people who have the financial means to do so, and today they are seen as criminals, as responsible for social injustice.
About: encourage entrepreneurship and create job opportunities
The Lula Government continuously discourages job creation.
- Neutral
About: reduce informality in employment
Today, there is a record number of people receiving Bolsa Família, of people in the informal sector, working without a signed work contract, therefore not seeking formal employment.
Then it seems that the employment rate is wonderful in Brazil, but formal employment is not because of these situations I have described.
About: encourage productive investment and entrepreneurship
This is a disincentive to those who want to take their money, the millionaires who want to take their money and invest in an enterprise, open a business, create jobs, because it is much easier for you to take that money and invest in the Stock Exchange, earn dividends, invest in speculation, without creating a single job.
About: amend the bill's text
This mindset is the one in this bill that was sent to us today and that needs to be changed — this bill needs to be changed.
And I will give just one example of what is in this bill and that is very serious, which is how it is treating liberal professionals.
- Against
About: increase taxation on self-employed professionals
They are lawyers, they are doctors, they are cultural producers who, by the wording, if they are not in the Simples, Mr. President Davi Alcolumbre, will pay 34% Income Tax plus CSLL (Social Contribution on Net Profit), plus 10% on the distribution of dividends when they move from the company to the individual, plus VAT, which is being estimated at 26.5%.
- Against
About: increase taxation on self-employed professionals
This is a confiscation! This is the State taking more money from the enterprise than the entrepreneur themselves.
About: amend the bill's text
So, it is obvious that this bill needs to be changed.
About: exempt incomes up to R$5.000 from income tax and tax the richest more
Other sources must be sought to compensate for this exemption for those who earn up to R$5,000 per month.
And, I repeat, this is certainly uncontroversial here, as it was in the Chamber.
Now, there is a contradiction regarding what the Rapporteur said here from this podium, because he criticized the Rapporteur so much, criticized the report so much and comes here wanting to vote the report produced and approved there in the Chamber of Deputies exactly as it arrived, with the excuse that it cannot go back to the Chamber?
It seems to me much more like a war from Alagoas, because, without citing names here, clearly President Renan Calheiros was referring to Deputy Arthur Lira, with a series of adjectives directed at him — with all due respect, President Renan, but that is not the issue here.
- Against
About: increase taxation on self-employed professionals
We cannot give up improving the bill with the justification, with all the quotes, "that this will go back to the Chamber," and approve a text that will destroy liberal professionals, with the argument that we must have speed, when we have every condition to make the changes here and for this text to go to the Chamber again, without any problem.
It seems there is a concern that this text, by going to the Chamber, will return to the hands of Deputy Arthur Lira, and then there is an electoral problem implied here, between the lines of this bill, which is not appropriate for this discussion, it is not appropriate to contaminate the debate.
- Against
About: increase taxation on self-employed professionals
Therefore, Mr. President, we will vote in favor of the bill, but we will defend here Senator Carlos Portinho's separate-vote motion, which deals precisely with liberal professionals, because, beyond what I have said here, the Lula Government has such an obsession with taxing, taxing, taxing, with levies, with tax, tax, that it increases revenue by reaching into the taxpayer's pocket and yet spending still increases.
- Neutral
About: reduce the public deficit
President Bolsonaro left the Government with a R$54 billion surplus, and today we already have more than R$350 billion in deficit, debt, commitments that will have to be honored at some point.
- Against
About: tax profits from prior fiscal years retroactively
In this bill here, they are inventing a retroactive taxation, which is unconstitutional.
So you today who are a liberal professional and are watching me will pay tax this month.
- Against
About: tax profits from prior fiscal years retroactively
After this bill passes, you will have to pay tax retroactively for all previous months, because the rule changed later without your knowing.
About: ensure legal certainty in tax rules
Look at the legal insecurity! And in the text, exceptions are opened so that it is not done this way, requiring unfeasible things.
- Against
About: tax profits from prior fiscal years retroactively
For example, there must be a corporate act distributing the company's dividends within the same year, that is, if by December 31 of this year there is no profit distribution, those companies will be taxed retroactively, which is humanly impossible.
You cannot hold an assembly, draw up corporate minutes, distribute profits, all on December 31, which is when you have to close the profit for that month.
It is unfeasible, it is impossible, that is, it will charge that tax retroactively.
About: amend the bill's text
It is written in the text. How can such a thing not be changed?
About: exempt incomes up to R$5.000 from income tax and tax the richest more
And there are several other points here that are obviously smaller, considering the great benefit of exempting those who earn up to R$5,000 per month from Income Tax.
About: reduce the tax burden on entrepreneurs
But we cannot kill those who create jobs in the country, because soon you will no longer have anyone to pay taxes, everyone will be depending on the State to have something to eat.
I know this is Lula's project, I know this is the communist, socialist mindset.
That is the mentality. The reference is Cuba, where a doctor earns US$3 per week.
But I am sure that this is not what the Senators, the Parliamentarians want for Brazil.
About: encourage entrepreneurship and create job opportunities
They must encourage people to undertake, to take their millionaire resources and reinvest them in job creation.
Not by attacking those who prospered in this country. That is a mistaken mentality.
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