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Brazilian Salvation and Restoration Council

^Guidance

BRSC Economic Reforms

Updated 12 July 2023

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Applies nationwide
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Contents

- Embracing the free market
- Company registration
- Business licences
- Bank accounts
- The Fundo de Previdência Obrigatório
- Federal tax overhauls
- Land ownership and tenure
- Profit-driven market participants
- Public savings
- Private participation in Minha Casa, Minha Vida
- Streamlining unemployment protections
- Loosened rules for foreign investments and subsidiaries
- Upskilling the workforce
- An Islamic bank for Brazil
- Government funding for business

This post describes a series of comprehensive economic reforms taken with the goal of transitioning Brazil from a mixed economy to one run by the free market. These include:

• Consolidating the 33 Cabinet-level ministries into 15 to cut public spending;

• Simplifying the process to open a bank account, register a company, and licence a business to reduce barriers to entry;

• Eliminating certain taxes, i.e: the IPI, IOF, CIDE, COFINS, PIS, capital gains, etc. to simplify the tax regime;

• Reducing the tax burden by cutting all personal and corporate income taxes to a flat-rate of 6%, which represents a historic record low;

• Raising revenues through the government auctioning of land;

• Creating the Fundo de Previdência Obrigatório (FSSO), a superannuation fund financially independent of the government (supported by contributions, investment proceeds, and a Short Life Levy on alcohol and tobacco) to reduce pensions spending;

• Combining the Seguro Desemprego (SD) and Fundo de Garantia de Tempo de Serviço (FGTS) into a financially independent common fund;

• Repealing Article 1134 of the Civil Code, which placed a barrier to entry for foreign companies;

• Replacing the previous series of business subsidies with ones specifically encouraging R&D, arts and culture, and green technologies to promote upvaluing;

• Providing grants to regional universities and undergraduate students to encourage ;

• Permitting private lenders other than the state-owned Caixa Econômica Federal to provide funding for the Minha Casa, Minha Vida programme; and

• Establishing the Banco Islâmico do Brasil.
  

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Ministry of Health

^Guidance

Reforming the Sistema Unico de Saude

This post describes a series of public health reforms taken with the goal of cutting healthcare spending. These include:

• Decentralizing the administration of healthcare to Regional Healthcare Trusts (RHTs)* to meet local needs;

• Implementing centralized procurement to cut administrative costs;

• Creating the Sistema Central de Atendimento ao Paciente (SCAP), a central repository of all patient data, to cut administrative costs; and

• Limiting medicines coverage to a closed list mirroring the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines to cut prescription costs.
  

Secondhand reference contained here and here.

* IRL counterpart being NHS trusts

Duplicate of this post describing Brazilian-Bangladeshi cooperation over the Common Maritime Combat Platform (CMCP).

Secondhand reference contained here.

Announcing the inaugural presidential elections under the BRSC.

Secondhand reference contained here.

Post introducing the six presidential candidates.

Post depicting the televised debate between the six candidates.

Expands the list of 73 functional constituencies to 100 in anticipation of future elections.

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Notícias

PUBLIC NOTICES

"The inaugural Congressional Elections for the Seventh Federative Republic will be held at the start of next year. The nomination period will run from this week until the next. Nomination forms will be distributed online and in Correios offices from today onwards.

The 2nd Congress of Brazil will be enlarged to accommodate 300 deputies in total. 100 deputies will be appointed by the Brazilian Restoration and Salvation Council. 200 deputies, 100 from the functional constituencies and 100 from the population, will be returned in this election."

The omitted portion of the post contains a list of the 100 electoral districts (EDs), which is reproduced here. Secondhand reference contained here.

This post describes a series of political reforms taken with the goal of further restructing the federal government to support the ideals of small government and the Nachtwächterstaat. These include:

• Consolidating the 15 Cabinet-level ministries into 6 to cut public spending;

• Creating a statutory corporation that is financially independent of the government (supported by a one-off grant of $95 billion reals) to administer the Minha Casa, Minha Vida programme and cut infrastructural spending;

• Implementing the Trabalho Para Todos (TPT) programme to provide unemployment relief and maintain the country's infrastructure*;

• Limiting federal investments into infrastructure through TPT to 2% of GDP, with local governments and the private sector to handle the remainder (~4% is the recommended figure to close Brazil's current infrastructure gap**);

• Eliminating all other welfare measures, except for Bolsa Família (BF), to cut welfare spending;

• Limiting BF spending to 0.5% of GDP***; and

• Limiting federal competences to law enforcement, healthcare, education, defence, foreign affairs, TPT/BF, and market regulation, while devolving the remainder to the States and municipalities.
  

Secondhand reference contained here.

* IRL counterpart being the Works Progress Administration and Public Works Administration
** https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/a386ab57-c3f7-5ace-8bb2-256c479bc8fa
*** https://reachalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/BolsaFamilia-CaseStudy-FINAL-pages.pdf

This post describes the BRSC's plans to wrap up Operation Piraña. These plans include:

• Evacuating and demolishing the favela of Rocinha within the month;

• Resettling 100,000 displaced favela dwellers to the North Region of Brazil with free, heritable leases of land;*

• Constructing 10-20 high-rise public housing estates to house the remainder, with $20 billion reals to be borrowed from the BNDES, AIIB (Zhonghua-Diguo), and Sonartrach Investment Fund (Commonwealth of Tamazgha) to this end;

• Doubling the number of personnel deployed to the favelas, while rotating out units which have experienced combat to distribute experience throughout the Army;

• Implementing a stop and search programme within the boundaries of every targeted favela; and

• Deploying troops to business areas as a deterrent against racketeering.
  

Secondhand reference contained here plus in server chats.

* IRL counterpart being the Homestead Acts.