Secretary Robinson Barreirinhas stated that self-employed workers will not be taxed and that inspection will allow the provision of more accurate data
The reinforcement of Pix will reduce the chance of workers falling through the cracks, said, on Monday (13 January 2025), the special secretary of , Robinson Barreirinhas. In an interview with the program “Voice of Brazil”he once again denied the wave of fake news about the taxation of electronic transfers and reiterated that self-employed workers are not the focus of monitoring.
According to the secretary, modernization in the supervision of financial transactions will allow the Tax Authorities to provide more accurate data in the pre-filled declaration, which will reduce the chance of errors and discrepancies.
“Everyone likes the pre-filled declaration. You get there and there’s no work at all. Because the data, for example, balance, bank account and financial investment, are already pre-filled. And why are they already pre-filled? Exactly. Why financial institutions provide information to the Federal Revenue”, he stated.
With the inclusion of fintechs (financial sector startups), digital banks and virtual wallet companies in providing information, highlighted the secretary, the pre-filled declaration will be more reliable.
“Now with fintechs, with payment institutions also lending, the IRS will have more solid, more correct data. And this reduces the chance of the worker, the entrepreneur, falling into the fine mesh of the Federal Revenue”, added Barreirinhas.
For professionals who receive payments through Pix, the secretary reiterated, nothing will change. Especially because these people have been inspected for more than 20 years.
“Nothing changes, because the IRS already received information on any type of movement, including Pix, from traditional financial institutions. If a person has never had a problem in the last 20 years, there is no reason for them to have one from now on, so nothing changes for them. It is important that small business owners, individuals, do not fall for these lies, fake news”, he reinforced.
The secretary explained that the new inspection increased the limit for monitoring movements from R$2,000 per month to R$5,000 per month for individuals, and from R$6 thousand to R$15 thousand for legal entities.
The change, explained Barreirinhas, intends to increase the focus of inspection on suspicions of money laundering or organized crime movements, without affecting workers or small business owners.
“The focus of the Federal Revenue is not, I repeat, the worker, the small company, the small entrepreneur. It is not. The focus of the IRS is on another type of people. It is those who use these new technological tools to move illicit money, often criminal money, money laundering. This is the Federal Revenue’s approach. Not, I repeat, the worker, the businessman”, he declared.
The new normative instruction, Barreirinhas highlighted, merely represented the addition of new types of companies that operate payment methods, but are not formally classified as financial institutions, by sending information to the Tax Authorities twice a year. Once again, the secretary stated that the Constitution does not allow taxation on financial transactions.
“It is not true that no control was created over Pix. This has existed for a long time here in Brazil. What the Federal Revenue did from 2025 onwards is to make it clear, the information that has always been provided by financial institutions, by traditional banks, must be provided by so-called fintechs. These companies without a physical branch, where you often open an account online, fintechs or payment institutions”, he explained.
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