False information that circulated earlier this year about a supposed PIX taxation made it harder to curb fraudulent transactions such as those revealed on Thursday (28) by the mega operation of the Federal Police in partnership with the São Paulo Public Prosecutor and the IRS, which disrupted a strong money laundering scheme used by the CCP.
The notion that Pix would be taxed viralized after the release of a video by Deputy Nikolas Ferreira (PL), who reached over 200 million views. In it, the parliamentarian criticized a new standard that provided for greater supervision of Fintechs financial movements, which was eventually revoked amid a political crisis triggered by the video.
According to the Undersecretary of Revenue Supervisory, Andrea Costa Chaves, the use of these institutions for organized crime to launder money was supported by regulation breaches, especially after the removal of data sending data to revenue in early 2025.
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“We had a fake news wave earlier this year, which culminated in the revocation of normative changes that would make more transparency to the operations of payment institutions,” Andrea said during the presentation of Operation Operation Operation Hidden on Thursday. “More than 200 fintechs remained out of reach of revenue, which directly impacted the visibility of the financial flows used by the crime.”
The revoked rule was part of an e-financial update, a system that concentrates data on financial movements above certain values. The proposal provided for transactions over R $ 5,000 (individuals) or R $ 15 thousand (companies) to be notified to revenue also when performed by payment institutions, such as fintechs.
“If it was fake news, why do you revoke?” Nikolas told CNN in January, shortly after the government turns back and overthrow the monitoring measure.
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At the time, the revenue secretary, Robinson Barreirinhas, justified the retreat stating that the norm had become a “gun in the hands of criminals” and that the revocation aimed to preserve the debate on future regulation.
Revenue and farm restore rule
Now, in the face of the discoveries of Operation Operation Operation Operation, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad has announced that a normative instruction will be published on Friday (29) to restore the obligation to report by fintechs, aligning them with the demands already applicable to traditional banks.
“From tomorrow, they will have to provide the same clarification on financial movement. This will allow us to unravel other washing schemes faster,” Haddad said at the press conference.
