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Brazil Federal government issued a provisional measure, published in an extra edition of the Official Gazette on Thursday, introducing an additional Social Contribution over Net Profit (CSLL) to align Brazilian…
Read moreWe have the pleasure of announcing the arrival of Daniel Affonseca into VBR! We are certain he will be an incredible addition to our team of specialists! Know more about…
Read moreThis is one of the rare, good news in the taxation in Brazil. Despite of the fact that the complexity of Brazilian taxation is being dealt with by the present…
Read moreAbout the Transaction VBR Brasil Capital is glad to announce that has acted as exclusive financial advisor to SB Crédito in its process of acquiring a stake in LiveOn. VBR…
Read moreThe LGPD, General Data Protection Law, was sanctioned and begins to take effect from this Friday, 18/09/2020.
Read moreProvisional Measure 931 and the effects of COVID-19 (March 30, 2020) Through MP Number 931, the President of the Republic relaxed the deadline established by the Brazilian Corporate Law 6,404…
Read moreOn 4/1/20, the government issued Provisional Measure (MP) 936 with the objective of preserving employment and income, making economic activity feasible, given the reduction in activities and reducing the social…
Read more1 – For Individuals Income Tax Filing of Income Tax returns have been postponed from April 30th to June 30st, 2020. 2 – For Corporations a) IPI (Tax on Industrialized…
Read moreThis Friday, April 3, Decree 10,305 / 2020 comes into force, which temporarily reduces the IOF tax rate on financial transactions. The reduction to zero will be applied between April…
Read moreA decretação pelo Governo Federal de estado de calamidade pública terá consequências diretas na economia do país, em especial nas relações empresarias e trabalhistas. Nossos advogados associados em São Paulo, Moreira Coelho, explicam os conceitos relevantes que impactarão diretamente no cumprimento de obrigações comerciais, civis e trabalhistas neste período.
Read moreThrough Provisional Act (MP) Number 931, the President of Brazil has relaxed the deadline established by Corporations Act 6.404/1976, that required corporations to hold Annual General Meeting until the last…
Read morePresident Michel Temer recently signed the changes in the Brazilian “Consolidation of Labor Laws” (or CLT in Portuguese). Fruit of a dark age and an even darker dictator, Getúlio Vargas,…
Read morePress gave great visibility (see http://epoca.globo.com/politica) to a declaration made by KPMG, that audited Petrobras as from 2007 to 2011, saying, “They did not see acts of corruption perpetrated by…
Read moreFoi publicado no DOU de 03/04/2017, Seção 2, pág. 44, a Portaria n. 154, de 31/03/2017, relativa à designação de Renato Vieira de Ávila, sócio na Russell Bedford Brasil (responsável…
Read moreIt is in fact the end of an era. The old TJLP (Portuguese, stands for “Long Term Interest Rate”), a generally flat and stable rate presently at 7% p.a. (incredible…
Read moreOne source of news, a very well known one at that (“Jota”) calls the present State VAT judgment by Brazilian Supreme Court as the “Judgment of the Decade”. For the…
Read moreThis week I published one of my “expletives” in my timeline in LinkedIn. At last (I thought) the corrupt leader of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, was being impeached through a…
Read moreI saw the above chart in Washington Post. It was brought to my attention by the Ethical Alliance Bulletin of June 22nd 2016. It could not be more adequate, despite…
Read moreAs of June 30th 1994 we were world`s inflation practical joke. With peaks of up to 8,900% of annualized inflation, we were world`s #1. Well, soccer was better then, but…
Read moreAs of June 30th 1994 we were world`s inflation practical joke. With peaks of up to 8,900% of annualized inflation, we were world`s #1. Well, soccer was better then, but…
Read moreAs I have presented here, quarterly, the results of the polls of YPO As of April 2016, regarding the 1st quarter of this tumultuous and politically confusing year. Impeachment process…
Read moreA huge portion of the companies that came to Brazil during the “golden years” (2002-2011) were service companies, mainly web-based operations. In a general manner, they pay ISS, or Tax…
Read moreFour international accountancy networks have taken the unusual step of jointly calling for changes to the audit market in Europe and arguing that regulatory intervention is needed to dilute the…
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