The IPI tax relief policy emerged from December 2008 as a response to the global crisis of 2008 that affected it in Brazil. The federal government defined the reduction of the the rates of different products from different industries. The general objective of this article is to evaluate the relationship of the IPI tax relief policy, from 2009 to 2013, the last year of the policy, on the tax revenue of the Brazilian municipalities. Specifically, to verify the existence of variability on tax revenue of the Brazilian municipalities, due to the heterogeneity of the municipalities, typical of a country with continental dimensions and socioeconomic disparities. It is justified to do this study considering that part of the amount of the IPI goes to the revenue of the municipalities and their dependence on intergovernmental transfers. The subsidies were obtained from the FINBRA and IBGE database, comprising the periods from the beginning of 2004 to the end of 2015. The methodology was a model Multilevel regression with panel data. The results showed that the tax collection of Brazilian municipalities, considering the entire sample, was positively affected by the IPI tax relief policy. It is possible to conclude that the tax collection of the Brazilian municipalities analyzed, in general, was affected by the IPI fiscal policy, meeting the initial expectation. The conclusion is justified by two non-exclusive notes: stabilizing effect of the IPI policy and efforts to collect funds from the municipalities.