Overview

• The Senate Economic Affairs Committee approved the alternative bill 21–0 in a terminative vote, allowing it to move straight to the Chamber unless appealed.
• Chamber president Hugo Motta said the House will vote on the measure next Wednesday regardless of any debate over a separate amnesty proposal.
• Arthur Lira’s report keeps a 10% withholding tax on remittances abroad and adds progressive surcharges for annual incomes above R$600,000, rising to 10% over R$1.2 million.
• Finance minister Fernando Haddad praised Lira’s handling of the text, while negotiators still face unresolved questions about fiscal compensation and possible opposition pushes to lift the exemption to R$10,000.
• The expanded exemption to R$5,000 is estimated to reach about 10 million people, and Senator Renan Calheiros accused Lira of using the issue as leverage in other disputes.