Brazil’s lower house approved a proposal to overhaul the country’s labyrinthine tax rules, fueling a rally in the local stock and currency markets.

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Better access to dispute resolution tools in treaties is critical as countries implement major tax changes, including an agreement to overhaul global tax rules, a senior Swedish ministry official said Friday.

The US should negotiate a favorable global minimum tax treatment for US green energy credits, the American Petroleum Institute told the Treasury Department in a letter on Wednesday.

Finance minister Fernando Haddad said he believes it will be possible to vote on the proposals for the new fiscal framework and the CARF bill in lower house tomorrow; postponing the vote to August could harm the budget, he said to journalists in Brasília.

The tax reform proposal, which will begin being discussed on Thursday and may be voted on in the Chamber of Deputies in the evening, will be approved, said president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvaduring a meeting of the Industrial Development Council in Brasilia.