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60 statements · 1 politicians · November 30, 2025 · 6 min
Statements by Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. 60 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Fiscal Reform, Education, Monetary Policy, Social Policy.
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My female friends and my male friends.
Brazil changed in the past week.
For the first time, more than 100 years after the introduction of the income tax, the privileges of a small financial elite gave way to a victory for the majority of the Brazilian people. Last Wednesday, November 23.
About: exempt incomes up to R$5.000 from income tax and tax the richest more
I signed the law that ends the income tax.
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About: exempt incomes up to R$5.000 from income tax and tax the richest more
for those who earn up to R$ 5,000 per month.
A proposal from our government.
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About: exempt incomes up to R$5.000 from income tax and tax the richest more
which was approved unanimously by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate and will now take effect in January 2026.
If you earn up to R$ 5,000 per month.
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About: exempt incomes up to R$5.000 from income tax and tax the richest more
December will be the last month that you will have income tax deducted from your paycheck.
And this same law.
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About: exempt incomes up to R$5.000 from income tax and tax the richest more
Reduces the tax for those who receive between R$ 5,000 and R$ 7,350, who will now pay less than they paid before.
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About: exempt incomes up to R$5.000 from income tax and tax the richest more
With zero income tax, a person with a salary of R$ 4,800 can save R$ 4,000 in one year.
About: maintain funding for public education
That's almost one tenth of a salary. And most importantly, the compensation will not come from cuts in education or health.
About: exempt incomes up to R$5.000 from income tax and tax the richest more
but from the taxation of the super-rich.
who earn more than one million per year and today pay nothing or almost nothing in taxes.
About: exempt incomes up to R$5.000 from income tax and tax the richest more
We are talking about 0.1% of the population, people who earn 10, 20, 100 times more than 99% of the Brazilian people and who will contribute 10% of the income tax to give relief to the families who work, struggle and move this country.
140,000 super-rich.
About: exempt incomes up to R$5.000 from income tax and tax the richest more
paying a little more so that many millions of Brazilians will stop paying.
more than a correction of the income tax table.
About: reform income tax to correct tax injustice and reduce inequality
The new law attacks the main cause of inequality in Brazil, the so-called tax injustice.
My female friends.
And my male friends, over the course of 500 years of history, the Brazilian elite accumulated more and more privileges, which were passed down from generation to generation until reaching today.
Among the many privileges, perhaps the most shameful
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About: reform income tax to correct tax injustice and reduce inequality
is paying less income tax than the middle class and workers.
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About: reform income tax to correct tax injustice and reduce inequality
Those who live by the sweat of their labor and actually build the wealth of this country pay up to 27.5% in income tax.
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About: reform income tax to correct tax injustice and reduce inequality
Those who live off investment income pay only 2.5% on average.
About: exempt incomes up to R$5.000 from income tax and tax the richest more
Those who live in mansions, have money abroad, collect imported cars, already had private planes and jets, pay 10 times less than a teacher, a police officer or a nurse. Imagine a person fighting to have decent housing, taking the bus, striving to buy a car and paying 10 times more income tax than the billionaires of our country. That is unacceptable. It was necessary to change and we are changing.
My female friends and my male friends, from January next year, what today is a deduction on your paycheck becomes extra money in your pocket.
to travel with the family.
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About: implement public policies to increase income and employability of young graduates
Eat what you like most, buy Christmas presents for your children, pay off a debt, make an early payment on an installment, buy a larger-screen television to watch the World Cup next year. This relief in income tax means more money in the pocket, which means greater purchasing power, which means increased consumption, which makes the wheels of the economy turn.
The federal revenue comes from the calculations.
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About: implement public policies to increase income and employability of young graduates
In 2026, this extra money in the hands of the Brazilian people should inject R$ 28 billion into the economy.
An extraordinary stimulus.
For commerce, for industry, the services sector and entrepreneurship.
which will generate more employment, more opportunities and more income. The entire country will benefit.
My female friends and my male friends.
In less than three years of government.
We have placed Brazil again among the ten largest economies in the world.
About: eradicate hunger through social programs like Bolsa Família
We have removed the country from the map of hunger for the second time.
We will have, in four years, the lowest accumulated inflation in history.
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