The panel of the TRF decided, by majority vote, that Normative Instruction No 243/02 (NI243) of the Federal Revenue Service (FRS) had overstepped its regulatory competence when it established how to calculate the 60% profit margin, under the Resale Price Less Profit (PRL 60) method. As a result, it granted the taxpayer the right to calculate the PRL 60 method based on the provisions of Law No 9430/96, disregarding the regulations of NI 243.