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Rio Grande do Sul · 479,599 residents · Mayor elected in 2024: Adilo Didomenico · 23 town councillors

Caxias do Sul

R$ 3,1 bi paid in 2025.

R$ 6.453 per resident · Towns of the same size: R$ 4.946

Spending by function

Click a function to see its sub-functions and the previous years

Source: SICONFI, the town's 2025 accounts (DCA, Annex I-E), spending paid.

Suppliers and recipients

The same R$ 3,1 bi, by type of spending.

  • Staff54%R$ 1,7 bi

    Pay and charges of active staff, retirees and pensioners.

  • Services, purchases and transfers39%R$ 1,2 bi

    Contracted companies, supplies, transfers to organisations and consortia. See the contracts ↓

  • Works and equipment5%R$ 154 mi

    Building, renovation, equipment purchases.

  • Debt interest and repayment2%R$ 68,3 mi

Source: SICONFI, the town's 2025 accounts (DCA, Annex I-D), spending paid by type.

Click a supplier to see its contracts

328 suppliers · R$ 273 mi in 397 contracts · All contracts and suppliers

Why this total differs from the spending paid

A contract's value is the total signed, often over several years, not what was paid in the year. What is paid in a year also comes from older contracts and from purchases without a published contract.

The total value of each company's or organisation's contracts with the town, published on the PNCP since 2026. Private individuals are not named.

Investment

R$ 154 mi invested in 2025 in works, facilities and equipment (5% of spending paid), or R$ 321 per resident.

  • 2017R$ 26,8 mi
  • 2018R$ 37,0 mi
  • 2019R$ 56,3 mi
  • 2020R$ 103 mi
  • 2021R$ 100 mi
  • 2022R$ 102 mi
  • 2023R$ 114 mi
  • 2024R$ 131 mi
  • 2025R$ 154 mi

Source: SICONFI, the town's accounts (DCA, Annex I-D), investment paid.

Revenue and borrowing

Revenue: R$ 3,4 bi · borrowing: R$ 32,8 mi · spending paid: R$ 3,1 bi.

Revenue by source

  • Current transfers46%R$ 1,6 bi

    From the federal government and the state: FPM, ICMS, SUS, FUNDEB and others.

  • Taxes and fees27%R$ 907 mi

    ISS, IPTU, ITBI, income tax withheld and local fees.

  • Fees for services10%R$ 340 mi
  • Contributions7%R$ 238 mi
  • Property income7%R$ 224 mi
  • Other current revenue1%R$ 50,6 mi
  • Other sources1%R$ 47,8 mi

    Capital transfers, loan repayments received, other capital revenue, sale of assets.

  • Borrowing1%R$ 32,8 mi

Source: SICONFI, the town's 2025 accounts (DCA, Annex I-C), revenue collected, net of deductions (R$ 170 mi withheld for FUNDEB).

Debt and taxes

R$ 292 mi of debt on the 2025 balance sheet (loans and financing)

R$ 609 per resident · Towns of the same size with loans: R$ 641

R$ 68,3 mi paid in interest and repayments in 2025

R$ 235 mi in 2017

R$ 629 mi of local taxes collected in 2025

R$ 1.311 per resident · Towns of the same size: R$ 1.104

ISS (services) R$ 377 mi · IPTU (property) R$ 179 mi · ITBI (property sales) R$ 72,1 mi

R$ 287 mi in 2017

2025 accounts filed with the National Treasury (SICONFI): balance sheet and revenue. Per resident: the amount divided by the population (IBGE — estimativas de população). “Towns of the same size”: the median per resident of the towns of 300,000 to 1 million residents that report the figure for 2025.

Understanding these figures

Paid, committed, carried over: what is the difference?

Committed (empenhado) is what the town set aside for an expense; paid is what left its accounts in the year. The difference, the restos a pagar, carries over to the next year. This page counts what was paid.

How is the comparison with towns of the same size made?

The 81 towns of 300,000 to 1 million residents with accounts filed for 2025 are ranked from lowest to highest per resident; the one in the middle is the median. Being above or below says nothing about good or bad: it depends on the area, the residents and the services each town runs.

Revenue and spending: what compares?

In 2025 the município collected R$ 3,4 bi (revenue realised, net of deductions, above all R$ 170 mi withheld for FUNDEB) and paid R$ 3,1 bi. Both sides come from the same annual return (DCA); the gap is not a profit: unpaid commitments, borrowing and the previous year’s cash all sit in it.

Where do these numbers come from?

From the annual accounts (DCA) every município files with the National Treasury on SICONFI, function by function. Population comes from IBGE — estimativas de população.

The contracts come from the PNCP, the national procurement portal, where Law 14.133 has every public unit publish its contracts since 2024. We read the publications since 2026: what a unit did not publish does not appear.

The mayor comes from the municipal election results of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE).

Elected officials and staff of Caxias do Sul: to report a figure to correct or add context, write to Qipu.

Compare with Canoas

Page published by Qipu, independent of the town · Sources and method

Source: SICONFI, National Treasury (DCA, Annexes I-C and I-E), spending paid excluding intra-budget transfers and net revenue realised; population IBGE — estimativas de população. Source: PNCP, Brazil's national public procurement portal. The method · See the source