Campaigns in Brazil to overturn Lula's betting bill veto
Wednesday 11 de September 2024 / 12:00
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(Brasilia).- The National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL) will begin a campaign this Thursday to convince deputies, senators and the federal government to overturn a partial veto by Lula of the sports betting bill that changed the taxation of bettors' winnings.
Recently, the president of the Senate and National Congress, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), announced that he had reached an agreement with the Planalto Palace to convene a session to analyse vetoes and vote on credit bills next Thursday, 18 April.
The betting association is in favour of reinstating the original text of the proposal, which established annual income tax on winnings, created an exemption band and allowed betting losses to be deducted from the taxable base.
With Lula's veto, the law now requires income tax to be paid on every prize paid out and on any amount. The ANJL argues that the combination of these factors ‘practically cancels out the effectiveness of federal regulation of the sector’, claiming that punters could migrate to clandestine sites.
When it recommended the veto contested by the betting association, the Ministry of Finance said that the sections would violate tax equality by creating ‘a logic of income tax exemption at odds with the ordinary rules that exist in the context of receiving prizes from lotteries in general’.
For the president of ANJL, Plínio Lemos Jorge, ‘maintaining these vetoes will harm everyone involved, except the illegal market, which will gain a wave of gamblers fleeing this mistaken taxation’.
Categoría:Legislation
Tags: Sin tags
País: Brazil
Región: EMEA
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