Brazilian Tax Reality

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Doing business in Brazil

If are you looking for doing business in Brazil you must know that! Brazil is not for the weak.

Brazil has the most complex tax system in the world. And this is proven by any research that is done.

Imagine in this scenario how the IT and Tax team’s challenge is in relation to location when you use a world-class ERP such as Oracle ERP Cloud, Oracle EBS, Oracle JD Edwards, Oracle Peoplesoft, Oracle NetSuite, SAP ECC, SAP S4/HANA, SAP Business One, Infor or Microsoft Dynamics AX for example.

Even for Brazilian companies that use a national ERP, the dynamics of the country indicate that to reduce costs, have more operational efficiency and ensure compliance, you need to have specialist software to address and handle correctly, for example:

ICMS: Tax on Transactions related to the Circulation of Goods and on Interstate and Intermunicipal Transport and Communication Services, which changes depending on the state when it is a domestic sale and also changes when the sale is made between states.

IPI: Tax on Industrialized Product whose rate varies from 0 to 30%. The document that shows the rate for each sector has “only” 442 pages.

Regime Tributário: Set of laws that have the function of determining how the company will pay for its mandatory taxes. In Brazil, companies can fall into Super Simples, Simples, Real Profit and Presumed Profit.

It’s an “endless alphabet soup”.

The fact is that a Brazilian company spends more than 1,900 hours (80 days a year!) just to be up to date with its tax obligations, according to the World Bank. On average, 33% of revenue business is directed only to the payment of taxes according to the IBPT (Brazilian Institute of Planning and Taxation.

And more… each company currently has to follow more than 3,790 standards, the equivalent of 5.9 kilometers of sheets printed on A4 paper. Each day, an average of 30 new tax rules or updates are issued in the country. That is, every hour, more than one new rule has to be followed or taken into account when calculating taxes.

Learn more about some of the main taxes and obligations in Brazil in the table below.

And if you are looking for a tax partner in Brazil to help solve this challenge with a solution that is easy to use, fast, secure, integrated with your ERP at a low cost, talk to one of our experts.

CIAP – Credit Control of Permanent Assets

CIAP – Credit Control of Permanent Assets is a mandatory document to legalize the ICMS credit resulting from the acquisitions of goods destined to the fixed assets which is linked to its use in the production and/or commercialization of goods or services taxed by ICMS.

Use the Compliance solution and make the gradual and automatic ICMS credit calculation over 48 months and the credit factor in an easy and fast way, complying with the different rules instituted by each state and also Block G.

DIRF Withholding Income Tax Return

The DIRF – Withholding Income Tax Declaration is the declaration made by the PAYING SOURCE, in order to inform the Secretariat of Federal Revenue of Brazil:

  • The income paid to individuals domiciled in the Country;
  • The amount of income tax and contributions withheld at source from income paid or credited to its beneficiaries;
  • The payment, credit, delivery, employment or remittance to residents or domiciled abroad;
  • Payments to health care plans – corporate group
  • With speed and dynamism, the Compliance solution will format and allow the control of withholding taxes in order to inform the RFB of the taxes paid or credited to your company’s beneficiaries.

 

Tax Bookkeeping

Compliance’s Tax Solution meets the requirements of the ECF – Tax Bookkeeping in a complete and integrated manner with the ECD – Digital Bookkeeping.

Using a native Tax Intelligence in the modules, it is possible to configure validation processes in Compliance’s Tax System that minimize the exposure to tax risk. Besides enabling the creation of validation rules that are specific to your company and your business.

What is it?

The Tax Bookkeeping (ECF) is an obligation imposed on legal entities established in Brazil.

The taxpayer must report, in the ECF, all transactions that influence the composition of the tax base and the amount due of the Corporate Income Tax (IRPJ) and Social Contribution on Net Income (CSLL).

The ECF is transmitted annually to the Public Digital Bookkeeping System (Sped) until the last working day of September of the year following the calendar year to which it refers.

Who is required?

All legal entities, including those equivalent to them, must submit the Fiscal Accounting Bookkeeping (ECF) in a centralized manner by the parent company.

The obligation to deliver the ECF does not apply

I – to legal entities opting for the Special Unified System of Collection of Taxes and Contributions owed by Micro and Small Companies (Simples Nacional).

II – to public agencies, independent government agencies and public foundations.

III – inactive legal entities.

Module Functionalities

Calculation of taxes, compensations and comparisons of different regimes, with information traceability;

Allows parameterization in a flexible way necessary information from the bookkeeping, unburdening the impact on the source system;

Generation of Digital Bookkeeping in SPED ECF standard;

Web platform, multi-company processing;

Possibility of acquiring the solution in the SaaS model, Software as a Service;

Issuance of reports for conference and graphs for management analysis;

Cross-referencing between different accessory obligations.

Module Differentials

Previous Validations: performs the consistency of information through the configuration of Fiscal Intelligence to avoid non-conformities at the time of transmission to the SPED environment;

Ease of integration with the main ERPs in the market and different information source systems;

Greater control in the management of taxes and consequently a reduction in risk exposure;

More agility to meet internal and external deadlines, such as compliance with tax inspections;

Greater efficiency in Tax Planning.

 Digital Tax Bookkeeping

EFD-Contributions is a digital file used by private legal entities in the accounting of the contribution to the PIS/Pasep and COFINS, with the non-cumulative and/or cumulative regimes, based on the set of documents and operations representing the revenues obtained.

With the intelligence for the calculation of the Fiscal Compliance solution, it goes beyond the simple generation of the file that ensures speed, security, and complementation of the data to generate the obligation in an analytical or synthetic way, including block I.

Compliance’s solution perfectly meets the complex tax world of issues related to PIS, COFINS and Social Security Contribution on gross revenue.

FCI Import Content Form

The FCI (Import Content Form) is responsible for presenting data that show the percentage of imported items in a final product. It follows the same pattern of SPED – controlling the goods that use the reduced ICMS in operations outside the states. It is with the information passed on by the FCI that one defines whether the product can benefit from the reduced rate or not.

The good news for companies is that the problems with the calculations and sending of FCI information can be solved with the implementation of a specialized tax solution.

The software from Compliance Solutions, the largest tax software reference in Brazil, has an exclusive FCI module, customized and automated for calculation, with transmission of the FCI file with management of the numbers and automation of the number in the issuing of the NF-e.

FCONT Fiscal Accounting Transition Control

FCONT is a double-entry bookkeeping of balance sheet accounts and results, which considers the accounting methods and criteria in effect on 12.31.2007.

Using the Intelligence present in the Compliance solution, it will be much easier to generate the file, since the solution goes beyond the simple generation, allowing you to control the recognition of revenues, costs, and expenses accounted for in the bookkeeping.

PIS, Cofins and CSLL

Service delivery has become a challenge for most companies and a reassurance for Compliance clients, understand the reasons why:

1) Calculation intelligence directly connected;

2) Real time calculation of the withheld INSS

3) IRRF highlighted in an easy way;

4) Validated PIS, Cofins and CSLL

5) Simplified calculation

6) End of doubts with ISS;

7) Validation of the tax of the taker

8) Calculation of the tax provider;

9) Have at hand the collections;

10) Ease of conference.

With the highlight of the tax intelligence native to Compliance’s tax platform built through the knowledge of experts in the field, our clients can offset taxes and reduce costs by using the flexible rules. We also offer significant gains in security, agility and ease of calculation and generation.

The tax war between the states does not need to transform your state operations into a calculation war, forget the complexity of ICMS with Compliance’s solutions;

Get significant gains from the ease of generating your state obligations including credits through e-Credac.

Learn about 10 benefits:

1) Performance for calculating business groups;

2) Division of the calculation per user and activity (direct and indirect);

3) Tributes Compensation reducing the tax burden;

4) Validation of the declarations guaranteeing quality;

5) Calculation intelligence directly connected;

6) Automatic scheduling of obligations;

7) Generation of more than one simultaneous obligation;

8) Import of external files in Excel, TXT or XML;

9) Support reports and export to Excel, TXT or XML;

10) Uses the calculation performed allowing performance for the team and tranquility for the management;

IPI

Making refunds (PER) or compensation (DCOMP), will now be easy. Compliance intelligence provides, through tax documents, data validation and auditing, and intelligent support reports.

SPED Fiscal is a digital file, which consists of a set of bookkeeping of tax documents and other information of interest to the tax authorities of the federated units and the Federal Revenue of Brazil.

It provides the generation of the magnetic file in the format supported by the PVA of SPED and the consolidation of the taxpayer’s tax information accurately, minimizing exposure to the tax authorities.

It generates information from Tax Documents, CIAP (Block G), Financial and similar (Block K) and other specific information per company segment, such as fuels, alcohol and sugar cane mills, ICMS sub-applications, among others. It offers adherence to the information previously presented in the State Tax Books, also allowing data validation and audits.

Who needs to use SPED Fiscal?

Any company taxed under the Actual Profit regime is automatically included in the SPED Fiscal. Micro and small companies that opt for the Simples Nacional are exempt from the requirement for the time being.

Ensure On-Time Delivery of the K Block!

Block K deals with production and inventory. Industrial establishments or those equivalent to them by federal legislation and wholesalers must report their stocks and production in Block K of the Tax SPED.

It requires companies to report standardized specific consumption, normal losses in the production process, and substitution of inputs for all products manufactured by the establishment itself or by third parties.

In practice, the K block is the digitalization of the Production and Inventory Control Book, which is difficult to keep updated, given the modeling of the production processes that sometimes do not fit into the cases listed by the tax legislation.

What can Compliance do for you?

With no initial investment in software or infrastructure, your company can enjoy a 100% Cloud product.

The only one in the market to count on native tax intelligence, the Compliance Tax Solution is capable of cross-referencing and validating existing tax information, providing less tax risk in the delivery of your accessory obligations, without the need to acquire third-party data validation software.

Founded by accountants from USP, Compliance has a team of highly qualified and skilled professionals to meet all tax specificities of the Brazilian market and guide your company in meeting its obligations.