Brazilian Senate OKs ‘15% Crypto Tax Rate’
Brazilian senators have voted in favor of a bill that proposes taxing crypto tax profits earned on overseas crypto platforms at a fixed rate of 15%.
Per the parliamentary website and a report from Brazil’s Livecoins, lawmakers “seriously amended” the bill to ensure no loopholes were included.
Should the bill become law, users of international crypto exchanges such as Binance, Coinbase, and Kucoin will need to declare their earnings.
The law is slated to come into force on January 1, 2024. It will require Brazilian crypto investors to declare these gains “separately from other income and capital gains.”
Some more active crypto traders will breathe a sigh of relief, however.
The amended bill replaces an initial proposal for a “sliding scale”-type structure.
Under this proposal, those earning less than $1,200 from crypto trading on overseas platforms would have been exempt from taxation.
But crypto traders earning over $10,140 per year would have faced tax bills of over 22%.
Livecoins quoted Ana Paula Rabello, an accountant specializing in crypto, as saying the bill includes a clause that classifies crypto wallets as “overseas financial applications.”
This bill stipulates that the Special Secretariat of the Federal Revenue of Brazil – the country’s tax service – will be given regulatory powers.
The amended bill also includes a clause that requires all companies that have a presence in Brazil and handle crypto to “provide periodic reports on their activities and their customers.”
This will apply to all firms active in the nation, no matter where they are headquartered.
The firms will have to submit their reports to the Federal Revenue Service and another financial watchdog, the Financial Activities Control Council.
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