Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Sao Paulo School of Economics (FGV EESP) is holding a free webinar on tax reform and treatment of the Manaus Free Trade Zone. This public event will take place on February 27, at 7 pm, on FGV’s YouTube channel. It will discuss the treatment of the Manaus Free Trade Zone in the government’s planned tax reform, as well as presenting possible options to maintain investment and jobs in the Amazon region.

Brazil requires a comprehensive and deep overhaul of its tax system. The most discussed proposals currently include constitutional amendments 45 and 110 of 2019. While these two proposals differ in many ways, both would introduce a value-added tax (a consumption tax assessed on the value added in each production stage of a good or service). Meanwhile, Brazil has several special tax regimes, including for the Manaus Free Trade Zone, based on purposes defined by Executive Order 288 of 1967 and subsequently accepted by the 1988 Federal Constitution.

These subjects will be debated by Luiz Carlos Jorge Hauly, a seven-term federal representative who has twice served as Paraná state finance secretary and who authored Constitutional Amendment Proposal 110 of 2019; Pauderney Tomaz Avelino of the Amazonas State Secretariat for Economic Development, Science, Technology and Innovation; and Eurico de Santi, a professor at the FGV Sao Paulo Law School, the director of the Center for Fiscal Citizenship and one of the authors of Constitutional Amendment Proposal 45 of 2019. The moderators will be Márcio Holland, the coordinator of the Finance and Economics Master’s Program at FGV EESP; and Daniel Vargas, the coordinator of FGV’s Bioeconomy Observatory and GVAgro’s research coordinator.

The event is part of the Amazon Dialogues, a digital platform to discuss topics related to sustainable socioeconomic development in the Brazilian Amazon with the whole of organized civil society.

To take part, please sign up here.