Federal tax collection increased 6.92% in March, compared to the same month in 2021, and reached 164.147 million reais (32.760 million dollars), the best result for the month of the historical series that began in 1995. With the performance of the month , collection in the quarter a real increase of 11.08% compared to the same period of 2021. The amount is also a record.
Without adjusting for inflation, the collection grew 19.01% in March, compared to the same month of the previous year, when the total collection totaled 137,932 million reais (27,926 million dollars). Considering only managed revenues, there was a real increase of 5.89% in the month, totaling 158.650 million reais (32.121 million dollars) compared to the same month in 2021. The nominal increase would be 17.85 percent. In the year, managed income totaled 519.352 million reais (105.153 million dollars), with a real increase of 8.85% and a nominal increase of 20.47 percent.
The own income of other federal agencies (where the oil royalty data is, for example) had a real increase of 49.02% compared to the same month of 2021. In the year, the own income of other agencies totaled a real increase of 76.08% and nominal of 94.56% compared to the same period of 2021.
The head of the Center for Tax and Customs Studies of Income, Claudemir Malaquias, said that what helps in the collection is the refining of oil due to the exchange rate and the increase in the price of a barrel of oil.