Cutting red tape for entrepreneurs
opening and running a business without a maze
Proposes extending economic freedom rules to all states and municipalities and carrying out a regulatory repeal drive to simplify opening and keeping companies running.
What the program says
Opening a company in Brazil was once a weeks-long ordeal. It was the Economic Freedom Law, passed in 2019 under the Bolsonaro government, that changed this picture: it waived permits and licenses for low-risk activities, simplified registration and affirmed the presumption of good faith of those who produce. We took a decisive step to get entrepreneurs out of the maze. But this progress has not yet reached everyone. In many states and municipalities, opening and keeping a company running is still slow and expensive, while next door it is already simple. We will make the good example of economic freedom reach the whole country, in every state and municipality, so that the ease of starting a business does not depend on the luck of where a person lives. And opening is only the beginning. The maze that suffocates most lies in keeping the business on its feet: the licenses, the requirements and the day-to-day paperwork that consume the time of those who should be producing. We will promote a broad regulatory repeal drive, reviewing obsolete rules and rationalizing procedures, with legal certainty to invest and grow. Every real spent on bureaucracy is a real that does not turn into machinery, inventory or jobs. For the small entrepreneur, the result is the time they stop spending on paperwork and start devoting to their own business. For those looking for work, it is the job opening that exists because the company was able not only to open, but to prosper. [p. 27]
In plain language
- The text cites the Economic Freedom Law, passed in 2019, which waived permits and licenses for low-risk activities and simplified registration.
- It states that, in many states and municipalities, opening and keeping a company running is still slow and expensive. The program proposes bringing economic freedom to the whole country, in every state and municipality.
- For those who already have a business, it provides for a regulatory repeal drive: a review of obsolete rules and the rationalization of procedures, with legal certainty to invest.
- The text links the measure to less time spent on paperwork by small entrepreneurs and to the creation of job openings.
What is not in the program
- It does not state through which legal instrument or agreement the economic freedom rules would reach states and municipalities.
- It does not list which rules would be reviewed or repealed in the repeal drive.
- It does not define who would conduct the review of the rules.
- It gives no timeline or numerical targets.