O Federal Government Payment Card (CPGF), better known as corporate card, was created to replace the use of checks in public administration, for minor expenses, such as food or transportation.
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It works in a similar way to personal or company credit cards, but with specific limits and rules to be followed.
Although the expenses did not go through a bidding process – necessary for all contracting of services in the public sector – those expenses small value and that need to meet prompt payment situations, such as travel and food, can be resolved with the corporate card.
The idea was to give more transparency to these “small expenses”, through a card whose use could be easily tracked by an invoice.
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See this interview carried out by TV Senado in 2018, with the then director of Governance and Management Auditing at CGU, Valdir Gomes Dias, who explains the use of the cards:
The use of the corporate card is very regulated in what is called “fund supply”.
But what is the supply of funds?
According to Transparency Portal of the federal government itself, supply of funds It is an advance given to the server to pay these small expenses, with a fixed deadline for use and proof of expenses.
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In this case, the employee of a public body – civil servant – must follow the same principles that govern Public Administration: legality, impersonality, morality, publicity and efficiency, as well as the principle of equality and the most advantageous acquisition.
And what expenses can be incurred with the supply of funds?
a) meet small expenses, understood as those whose value, in each case, does not exceed the limit established in the Ordinance MF No. 95/2002;
b) meet occasional expenses, including travel and special services, that require prompt payment;
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c) when the expense must be made confidentially, in accordance with regulations.
Understand the controversy surrounding Jair Bolsonaro's card
Everyone can have access to detailed data on expenses incurred using payment cards, even those of the President of the Republic, except for data relating to confidential expenses.
Jair Bolsonaro placed 1200-year-old secrecy on several public documents, including spending on his corporate card. And the administration did not respond to requests for information, made based on the LAI (Access to Information Law) that were requested by the press or bodies that work with transparency.
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According to the LAI, the secrecy of corporate card expenses is valid until the end of the president's term. When he leaves office, the data is automatically public.
Hence, the entire press was able to access the purchase details of the former president's card. And several expenses raised suspicions, mainly the very high expenses for food in simple restaurants, in a single day, and fuel, on the days that coincide with Bolsonaro's “motorbikes”.
The case does not fit into the breaches of secrecy that the Lula government has been promoting.
No curto fake news
“My personal account, I can withdraw up to R$25 per month and take it in tubaína. I never took out a penny,” said the president, during one of his lives on social media, on September 1st last year, according to Estadão.
And at least 15 other times, in other live broadcasts, this statement was repeated. But the list of expenses that has been released by the press shows that the real story was different from the speech.
Jair Bolsonaro justified the use of his personal corporate card to pay for the team that accompanies him on trips and that the locations were “not luxury”.
The case of 8 reais tapioca
Controversies over the use of corporate cards by public servants and authorities are nothing new.
Many of the controversies do not have to do with the legality of using the card, but with morality, that is, does a minister, or the President of the Republic, not earn enough to buy food when they are traveling, for example?
In 2008, Lula's then minister, Orlando Silva, became the target of headlines when he bought a tapioca for R$8,30 on his corporate card. 👀
Curto Curatorship:
- Bolsonaro: spending on the corporate card that could be targeted by the courts (Land)
- Delicatessen where Bolsonaro spent R$19 on his corporate card says it provided meals for army soldiers (G1)
- Corporate card was used for 137 supplies on Bolsonaro's motorcycles (State of Mines)
- Corporate card: Bolsonaro spent R$1,46 million on a single hotel and R$362 thousand on the same bakery (Stay)
Curto Explain: everything you need to know and are embarrassed to ask!😉
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