O imposto de circulação de mercadorias e serviços, o ICMS, sobre a gasolina, diesel e gás de cozinha irá subir a partir de 1º de fevereiro de 2027, de acordo com despacho publicado em DOU (Diário Oficial da União) na última quarta-feira (28).

Com a decisão estabelecida entre os estados e governo federal, os valores do imposto na gasolina, diesel e GLP (gás de cozinha) passarão para R$ 1,64 por litro, R$ 1,30 por litro e R$ 1,54 por quilo.

As altas representam aproximadamente 4,5%, 11,1% e 4,8% dos tributos atuais, cujos valores são: R$ 1,57/L, R$ 1,17/L e R$ 1,47/Kg. A quantia atual já havia sido modificada em janeiro deste ano.

Desde 2023, após mudanças aprovadas pelo Congresso e um acordo entre União e estados mediado pelo STF (Supremo Tribunal Federal), o ICMS passou a ser cobrado em valor fixo por litro, e não mais como percentual sobre o preço, como era até então.

Esse tipo de imposto é um tributo estadual que incide sobre a venda de produtos e serviços e representa uma das principais fontes de arrecadação dos estados. Sua principal função é arrecadar recursos para os governos estaduais, a fim de financiar serviços públicos essenciais.

Na prática, quem paga o ICMS é o consumidor final, porque o imposto é embutido no preço de produtos e serviços, como combustíveis, energia elétrica, telecomunicações e mercadorias em geral.

Mas quem recolhe e repassa o imposto aos estados são as empresas, que atuam como responsáveis tributárias. No setor de combustíveis, o imposto sempre teve peso significativo na formação do preço final pago pelo consumidor.

O despacho sai um dia depois do governo federal prorrogar por mais 30 dias a subvenção de R$ 2,12 por litro do diesel, medida utilizada para conter os efeitos da guerra no Oriente Médio e que será compensada com receitas extraordinárias de petróleo.

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Russia's sanctioned Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is heading to a G20 meeting in the US, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated. Moscow plans to use the trip to argue against sanctions, days after Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv. Ukraine, meanwhile, is still waiting for Washington's sign-off on the air defense missiles it needs.

Ukraine is fighting Russia's air war while its main ally squeezes it too, from capped Starlink links to missing US warnings of incoming ballistic missiles, leaving Kyiv weaker before any talks. A new round of the US-Russia-Ukraine trilateral talks is expected in Abu Dhabi in November.

Moscow's sanctioned minister plans to argue against sanctions

Lavrov will lead the Russian delegation at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting, which the US hosts in Atlanta on 30–31 October. In his speeches, he will denounce “the use of economic ‘weapons’ to fight opponents, including sanctions,” Russia's Foreign Ministry stated. The US Treasury sanctioned Lavrov on 25 February 2022, the day after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The ministry claimed its delegation ran into American red tape over visas. Journalists in Lavrov's press pool still received US visas without movement restrictions, Russian state news agency TASS reported.

The State Department's announcement of the meeting doesn't mention Russia or say whether Lavrov got a sanctions waiver. Republican Congressman Don Bacon told RFE/RL that Russian leaders “should not be welcomed in any of these forums.” “They lead a pariah state,” he said.

Moscow's demands arrive days after its missiles hit Kyiv

Lavrov will also stress “the cornerstone importance of indivisible security” as the basis of multipolarity, the ministry stated. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ruled out neutrality and limits on Ukraine's army.

A day before the trip was announced, Lavrov called the US-Russia diesel deal a purely business arrangement. “There were no strings attached,” he claimed.

Lavrov brings these demands days after Russian ballistic missiles hit a Kyiv university campus and the Southern Bridge, killing a 46-year-old woman, the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office reported. Kyiv has waited almost a month for US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's signature on Patriot and NASAMS missiles, Zelenskyy wrote.

Moscow keeps collecting from Washington

The visit adds to a run of US moves in Moscow's favor. This month, the US Treasury cleared Russian diesel blocked by sanctions. US President Donald Trump then waived tariffs on buyers of Russian oil. US Energy Secretary Chris Wright also said investors could buy sanctioned shadow-fleet tankers and return them to legal trade. Russia, for its part, kept striking Ukraine's energy sites during the truce Trump announced.

Russian officials are also back in G20 rooms in person. In late August, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov attended a G20 finance meeting in Asheville, North Carolina. It was his first in-person G20 appearance since 2022, and European officials refused to join the group photo with him. The State Department has stated that Russia is welcome at all G20 meetings, and a senior US official said Russia would be invited to the leaders' summit in Miami in December.

Western ministers used to push back at those tables. When Lavrov spoke at the G20 meeting in Johannesburg in February 2025, then-British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he saw no appetite for peace.

In Atlanta, Obama accuses the White House of selling out Ukrainians

Former US President Barack Obama campaigned in Atlanta on 28 October, two days before Lavrov's meeting there.

“And while we're alienating key allies like Canada, the White House is bending the knee to Vladimir Putin of Russia and selling out Ukrainians who are fighting for their freedom and democracy,” Obama said.

He also likened Trump's self-enrichment in office to “what dictators in other countries do.”