State tax that levies on services and circulation of goods (purchase, sale, transfer, consignment, transportation, electricity, telephone services, etc). It is implicit in the price and its taxation depends on the operation (purchase for consumption, production) and on incentives granted by the government and related to the region.
It is calculated and paid monthly and its rates are:
Operations destined to States in regions North, Northeast and Center-East (transportation services, rice, beans, bread, salt, meats, etc.; electric power up to 200 Kwh and rural; sand and crushed stone, industrial and data processing machinery, apparatus and equipment, agricultural machinery and tractors, according to list; industrial meals, etc.)
As there are cases laid down by law where IPI must be added to the ICMS tax base, even if it is not a purchase for final consumption, you must answer this question. This way, purchase operation in which IPI is the ICMS tax base, though not for final consumption, and thus not subjected to complementary ICMS payment, must have a specific TIO where the answer for CALC.ICMSDIF.? is N.