Brazil: Internal Revenue Services publishes public notice for special settlement agreement of tax debts in administrative litigation

In brief

On 19 March 2024, the Public Notice of Special Settlement Agreement No. 1/2024 was published, which provides for the opening of the Zero Litigation Program 2024, a new special settlement agreement for tax debts in administrative litigation within the scope of the IRS of Brazil, the value of which, per litigation, is up to BRL 50,000,000.00.

Discounts and payment terms will be determined according to the degree of recoverability of the debts.

The deadline for joining the Program is 1 April 2024 to 31 July 2024.


Contents

Details

The main features of the Public Notice are as follows:

  • Deadline: from 1 April 2024 to 31 July 2024.
  • Eligible debts: debts under administrative review by the IRS, relating to taxes administered by the IRS, including the social contributions referred to in subparagraphs "a", "b" and "c" of the sole paragraph of art. 11 of Law No. 8.212/1991, the contributions instituted by way of substitution and the contributions due by law to third parties and collected by means of DARF, the value of which, per dispute, is up to BRL 50,000,000.00.
  • Modalities contained in the Public Notice1:

 
Settlement for irrecoverable and difficult-to-recover debts Transaction for debts with high or medium prospects of recovery
Target public  
 
  1. Individuals and legal entities classified as "C" or "D" by the Attorney General's Office of the National Treasury.
  2. Debts classified as "C" or "D" by the Attorney General's Office of the National Treasury.

(** The classification is determined primarily by the taxpayer's ability to pay).

  1. Individuals and legal entities classified as "A" or "B" by the Attorney General's Office of the National Treasury.
  2. Debts classified as "A" or "B" by the Attorney General's Office of the National Treasury.

(**The classification is determined primarily by the taxpayer's ability to pay).

Discounts

Up to 100% of interest, fines, and attorney's fees, subject to a limit of up to 65% of the total amount of each debt.

This option does not offer any discount.

Conditions for the payment
  1. A down payment of 10% of the consolidated value of the debt, after discounts, paid in up to five successive monthly installments, and the remainder in up to 115 successive monthly installments.
  2. In the case of the use of NOLs, a down payment of at least 10% of the outstanding balance in up to five successive monthly installments and the remainder using these NOLs, calculated up to 31 December 2023, limited to 70% of the debt after the down payment, and the residual balance divided into up to 36 successive monthly installments.

Obs: In the case of the social contributions provided for in item I "a" and item II of art. 195 of the Federal Constitution, the periods referred to in item I above shall not exceed 55 months.

  1. At least 30% of the consolidated value of the credits transacted, in up to five successive monthly installments and the remainder of the outstanding balance using NOLs calculated up to 31 December 2023, limited to 70% of the debt after the down payment, and the residual balance divided into up to 36 successive monthly installments.
  2. Down payment equivalent to 30% of the consolidated value of the debt, paid in up to five successive monthly installments, and the remainder in up to 115 successive monthly installments.
     

 


1 We will not deal here with the "small value settlement", whose target audience is limited to individuals, individual micro-entrepreneurs, micro-enterprises, or small businesses that have debts with a consolidated value of up to BRL 84,720.00.

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