Overview
- Lawmakers on the mixed committee approved MP 1,305/2025 on Oct. 22, adopting rapporteur José Nelto’s favorable report.
- Committee president Sérgio Petecão said he would push to place the proposal on the Chamber’s agenda immediately, including outreach to Speaker Hugo Motta.
- The provisional measure exempts taxi drivers from initial and subsequent taximeter verification fees for five years and changes periodic inspections to every two years.
- Inmetro remains responsible for mandatory metrological checks and for monitoring the policy’s effects, with the prior fee around R$52 per annual verification.
- The government pegs the annual impact near R$9 million with planned offsets from other tax measures, while reports differ on whether benefits cover roughly 300,000 drivers or about 100,000 taximetered vehicles.