More than 5 million have not yet sent the declaration; delay generates a fine and may leave the CPF pending regularization
The deadline for declaring Income Tax ends at 11:59 pm this Friday (May 29, 2026). As of Thursday (May 28), 11.5% of tax payers (5.1 million people) had still not settled their accounts with the lion.
Anyone who misses the deadline for submitting the declaration will pay a fine of R$165.74 or 1% of the tax due, whichever is higher. Furthermore, the CPF ceases to be regular and becomes “pending regularization”.
According to the tax auditor of the Federal Revenue, José Carlos Fonseca, the consequences of not submitting the income tax declaration range from obstacles to opening a bank account to the issuance of a passport.
“In these situations, the market itself begins to look at this taxpayer differently. Banks may not accept the opening of accounts from a person who has a pending issue with the Federal Revenue Service; loans end up being denied because the person has a pending issue; the passport is no longer issued. The person starts to have a series of problems because the CPF is pending”, declared.
It is important to remember that the person’s fantasy of not submitting the declaration or being on the hook for previous years does not exempt them from declaring this year.
It has been released since March 19th.
Individuals who received taxable income above R$35,584, as well as those who obtained gross income from rural activities above R$177,920, are required to declare. People who received up to two monthly minimum wages in 2025 are exempt from making the declaration, unless they meet another mandatory criterion.
Ways to declare
The majority of documents were filled out using the computer program (78.1%), while 15.5% of tax payers resorted to filling them out online, which leaves the draft declaration saved on the Tax Authorities’ computers (Revenue’s cloud), and 6.4% declared using the My Income Tax application for smartphones and tablets.
A total of 59.6% of those who submitted the document to the Federal Revenue Service used the pre-filled declaration, through which the declarant downloads a preliminary version of the document, simply confirming the information or rectifying the data. The simplified discount option represents 55% of shipments.
This text was originally published by , on May 29, 2026. The content is free for republication, citing the source, and was adapted to the standard of Poder360.
