Changes to eSocial – Rogério Marinho, Special Secretary for Social Security and Labor of the Ministry of the Economy, reported that the government is working to “simplify” the Digital Bookkeeping System for Tax, Social Security, and Labor Obligations (eSocial). In his view, there is “excessive detail” in the inputting of information.
According to him, in January 2020 two new systems will be implemented. One for large and medium-sized companies, “already simplified and de-bureaucratized”; and another for small and micro-enterprises, “even more simplified.” The initiative will affect the use of eSocial for domestic employees. “The idea is also to simplify it for the individual employer.”
“The fact that there are two systems does not mean that complexity will increase. They will be two much simpler systems,” the secretary promises. According to Marinho, the new systems will not include tax information. “The idea is for the Federal Revenue Service to make available, as of January [2020], its own differentiated and also simplified system. And for the labor and social-security area to remain in the system.”
“We expect at least the reduction of the current layouts (…) The idea is to have a management and control tool for the labor and social-security area that is, on the one hand, friendly, and on the other, comfortable – both for those who need to carry out public management, which is the federal government, and for those who have the need to transmit this information,” he explained.
According to the secretary, until the definitive modification the system remains in use and will be “customized” to facilitate its use. Marinho noted that there will be a migration scheme so as not to “harm” the companies that invested “time and money” in inputting data into eSocial.
Created in 2013, eSocial currently unifies the provision, by the employer, of information relating to employees. Data such as the General Register of Employed and Unemployed Persons (Caged), the Annual Social Information Report (Rais), the Guide for the Collection of the Guarantee Fund and Information to Social Security (GFIP), and information requested by the Federal Revenue Service are sent to the federal government in a single environment.
Source: Agência Brasil
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