{"id":38204,"date":"2011-05-24T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/minister-speaks-for-lower-healthcare-industry-taxes\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T13:27:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:27:20","slug":"minister-speaks-for-lower-healthcare-industry-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/minister-speaks-for-lower-healthcare-industry-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister speaks for lower healthcare industry taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The Brazilian minister of Health, Alexandre Padilha, said today (24th) that he is favourable to the lowering of taxes on medical equipment and medication manufactured in Brazil. While attending the Hospitalar fair, in S\u00e3o Paulo, he stated that the idea is not included in the tax reform proposal elaborated by the Brazilian federal government, but underscored that the matter is being discussed between the ministry and the healthcare sectors in the country.<\/p>\n<p> According to Padilha, the ministry is interested in discussing, with state governors, the National Congress and all sectors of society, an agenda turned to the lowering of taxes that will lead to lower prices of medications and healthcare equipment.<\/p>\n<p> During an address at the fair\u2019s opening ceremony, the chairman of the Federation of Industries of the State of S\u00e3o Paulo (Fiesp), Paulo Skaf, claimed that the Brazilian healthcare industry is losing competitiveness because the tax burden on domestic products is too heavy.<\/p>\n<p> <b>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandre Padilha is favourable to the reduction of tax on medical equipment and medication. He attended the opening of the Hospitalar sector fair in S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Alexandre Padilha is favourable to the reduction of tax on medical equipment and medication. He attended the opening of the Hospitalar sector fair in S\u00e3o Paulo.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}