Brazilian States Will Boost Tax Revenues, Improve Competitiveness With PROFISCO II
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The financing, a conditional credit line for investment projects (CCLIP), will uphold fiscal modernization moves within the Profisco II program. The credit will fund individual projects carried out by state governments with backing from the federal government, which will provide sovereign guarantee to the program's loans.
Profisco II was launched to deepen and consolidate the achievements of the first edition of Profisco, first implemented in 2008. Profisco I's goal was to promote the integration of the fiscal systems from different states and to modernize the fiscal, financial and asset management of beneficiaries. The new edition seeks to also strengthen the states' revenue collection in a context where the country's low economic growth is having a negative impact on the states' fiscal performance.
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In addition, it will fund moves to strengthen the tax administration, such as updating tax legislation, streamlining tax preparation, modernizing surveillance and fiscal intelligence, and improving and automating taxpayer's and revenues' service procedures. The program will also support moves to improve budgetary and financial planning and public debt management and to modernize the state's accounting information system.
The credit line loans are for 25-years terms, with 5.5-year grace periods and LIBOR-based interest rate. The
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