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Minas Gerais Implements Tax Exemption For Large Solar

by James Ayre August 9, 2015
written by James Ayre August 9, 2015
Minas Gerais Implements Tax Exemption For Large Solar

The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais will see its large-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) sector aided by a new extended tax exemption for companies dealing in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity, according to recent reports.

It’s expected that this new tax exemption — which provides the aforementioned industries with protection from ICMS taxation (a tax on goods + services) for the first 20 years of production — will allow for a faster-than-previously expected deployment of large-scale solar PV projects. The exemption enters into effect in 2018, and is an increase over a previous 10-year exemption.

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The government of Minas Gerais has reportedly committed to providing BRL25 million ($8 million) for the exemption plan. As the tax exemption will effectively lower operating costs for utility and development companies via the increase in the tax-free period to 20 years, the expectation is that developers will be able to keep their bids lower during tenders.

Given that the state of São Paulo also offers such an incentive, and the two states are at the top in Brazil in terms of total contracted projects obtained via the 2014 solar energy auction, the approach seems to working in that regard. The states that have incentives allowing for lower bids, unsurprising, can generally undercut those in the states without access to such support.

Presumably, this means that a wider embrace of the strategy would allow for a more evened out playing field.

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James Ayre

's background is predominantly in geopolitics and history, but he has an obsessive interest in pretty much everything. After an early life spent in the Imperial Free City of Dortmund, James followed the river Ruhr to Cofbuokheim, where he attended the University of Astnide. And where he also briefly considered entering the coal mining business. He currently writes for a living, on a broad variety of subjects, ranging from science, to politics, to military history, to renewable energy. You can follow his work on Google+.

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