PwC Brazil

Romero J S Tavares e Priscila Vergueiro da PwC pontuam como o Brasil poderia incrementar seu sistema de tributação internacional e preços de transferência através do processo de acessão à OCDE, com medidas calculadas e abordagem ponderada.

On July 1 2019, the Federal Brazilian Tax Authorities (RFB) published Solução de Consulta – Cosit 210/2019 (dated June 24 2019), providing that withholding tax should be levied at a rate of 15% on interest that is accrued but not yet due, where the outstanding debt is used to reduce accounting losses of a Brazilian company via a ‘debit to shareholders account’ transaction.

Brazil's federal tax authorities have published guidance noting that debt forgiveness ought to be regarded as financial revenue and should be taxed at 4.65%.