Haddad appoints Bernard Appy as Special Secretary for Tax Reform

Future finance minister Fernando Haddad (PT) announced this Tuesday (13) that economist Bernard Appy will be special secretary for tax reform.

He is director of the CCIF (Centro de Cidadania Fiscal) and was Secretary of Economic Policy at the Ministry of Finance in the previous administration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT). He is one of the country’s leading tax experts.

🇧🇷[Appy] It gathered a very large set of information about the tax system and designed the proposal that has served the National Congress as a basis for a discussion in the country”, said Haddad when announcing the choice.

The future minister has said that tax reform is a priority for his management and will give strength to the proposal for a new fiscal framework, which prevents the growth of public debt as a proportion of GDP. The prospect that the Lula government 3 will increase spending uncontrollably and lose control of the debt has led to turbulence in the financial market.

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Bernard Appy, 60, future Special Secretary for Tax Reform

Training

Economist graduated from USP.

Career

Director of the CCIF (Fiscal Citizenship Center). Economist and former Executive and Economic Policy Secretary at the Ministry of Finance (2003-2009). He was director of Strategy and Planning at BM & F Bovespa (currently B3) and managing partner of LCA Consultores.

Publications

He has published several texts on taxes and is the author of one of the main tax reforms being discussed in the country today, PEC 45 (which merges 5 taxes and creates in their place the Tax on Goods and Services and the Excise Tax). The text is pending in the Chamber of Deputies.