Panel SA: SP auditors ask for reappointment of Secretary of Finance

This Tuesday (6th) Federal Revenue auditors in São Paulo delivered a request to the transition team of Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans) for the reappointment of Felipe Salto to the command of the Treasury Department.

The letter is signed by the council of representatives and the executive board of Sinafresp (Union of Tax Auditors of the State Revenue Service of São Paulo).

In it, the auditors state that Salto’s work united the efforts of the civil servants, generating improvements in the provision of services, release of accumulated credits for the productive sector and the generation of fiscal surplus. Salto will leave office with around R$37 billion in cash.

The manifesto is released amid rumors about the possible arrival of Paulo Guedes to Tarcísio’s secretariat. The Minister of Economy, face of Bolsonarism in the country’s finances, does not publicly confirm the governor-elect’s invitation.

Next to elected vice-president Geraldo Alckmin, Salto was being considered to take over the National Treasury Secretariat, but the struggle for power in the PT team, which consolidated the nomination of Fernando Haddad to the Ministry of Finance, made the formal invitation to Salto more difficult. distant.

In the government of São Paulo, the economist took over the portfolio in April, replacing Henrique Meirelles — he himself was quoted to be Minister of Finance, but lost strength shortly after the election.

In São Paulo, given the new moves in Tarcísio’s transition team, there is still no indication of who will be the name of the next management for the position.

When contacted, Salto did not comment on his future in public administration. He said he was grateful to the auditors. “During these almost eight months at the head of the Treasury, I was able to meet very high-value tax auditors, without whom the financing of essential State actions would not exist”, he said.

Julio Wiziack (acting) with Paulo Ricardo Martins and Diego Felix