Extra Tax on Petrobras Profit Can Be Used in Social Aid: Speaker

Extra taxation on Petrobras profits can be used to mitigate the difference between domestic and international diesel prices and to finance vouchers for truck drivers, taxi drivers or gas, said Lower House speaker Arthur Lira in a telephone interview on Friday.

• “[The proceeds] can go wherever we want, they just won’t be used to pay public debt, or stay in the public coffers, or at Petrobras,” he said.
• Discussion on what to do in relation to Petrobras will take place on Monday at a meeting with leaders of governing and opposition parties
• We are going to attack the [current] pricing ...