Brazil: Federal law published for self-regularization of debts with the Brazilian Internal Revenue Service

In brief

On 30 November 2023, Law 14.740/2023 was published, which provides for the incentivized self-regularization of taxes handled by the Brazilian Internal Revenue Service, with the waiver of interest and penalties. Taxpayers will have up to 90 (ninety) days after the law is regulated to join the program.


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More details

The self-regularization program provides for the possibility of paying tax debts within the scope of the Brazilian Internal Revenue Service, the main points of which are discussed below:

Debts covered in the program
  1. Debts arising from administrative proceedings and decisions that do not fully or partially ratify the declaration of offsetting, which come to be constituted between the date of publication of this Law and the deadline to join the program.
  2. Debts not yet established (confessed by rectifying the corresponding ancillary obligations and accounting bookkeeping).
  3. Debts arising from an IRS inspection procedure that has already begun.
Options to join the program
  1. By confession and payment.
  2. Payment in installments of the full amount.
Discounts

100% discount in penalties and interest, provided they are paid as follows:

  1. At least 50% (fifty percent) of the debt in a lump sum in cash.
  2. The remainder in up to 48 (forty-eight) successive monthly installments, plus interest.
Conditions for the payment

Use of credits of a judicial order of payments.
Use of Tax Losses and negative calculation bases of the Social Contribution on Net Profits (NOLs) to settle the debt, limited to 50% of the amount of the debt.

Tax Clearance Certificate

Tax debts covered by self-regularization will not be an obstacle to the renewal/issuing of the Tax Clearance Certificate.

Deadline

Up up to 90 days after regulation.

Tax benefits

Provision for non-taxation by IR/CS (CIT) and PIS/COFINS (Turnover Taxes).


We believe that the regulations will be published later this year, so we recommend that an assessment be made of potential debts that the company believes could be included in this program.

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