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• Empreenda Fácil: Making It Easier and Faster to Open a Company in Brazil

  

  Since his election, São Paulo’s mayor João Doria has been making waves for his business approach to politics. A successful businessman himself, Doria’s... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Brazilian Court Rules Against Regulating Font Size in Print Ads

  

  Brazil’s highest court on non-constitutional issues, the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), ruled that certain advertisements may lawfully use a font size that... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Temer Keeps Promise to Fight Climate Change By Signing Paris Agreement

  

  On June 5, World Environment Day, Brazilian President Michel Temer signed the Paris Agreement into law. Brazil ratified the agreement in 2016, but it never... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• President Rejects Amnesty for Foreigners in New Immigration Law

  

  The Brazilian government recently updated its immigration law. The original law was established in the 1980s when Brazil was under the rule of a military... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Apostille Convention is Helping Investors Using Foreign Documents in Brazil

  

  Doing business in Brazil is getting easier for foreigners. While investors still face heaping amounts of red tape and bureaucracy, one change made by the... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Brazil May Seek to Join the OECD

  

  President Michel Temer is making changes to Brazil’s economic policies, including cozying up to developed nations. Unlike former Presidents Lula and Rousseff,... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Partners from Mossack Fonseca Released on Bail in Panama

  

  The partners of the law firm Mossack Fonseca, Ramón Fonseca and Jürgen Mossack, were arrested in Panama City in February, but were granted bail by a Panamanian... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Brazil’s Economic Recovery Inspires Foreign Investment

  

  Anyone with their finger on the pulse of global economies in the past few years knows that Brazil has been struggling. It has been experiencing a cataclysmic... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Brazilian Supreme Court Approves Benefits Assistance for Foreign Residents

  

  Brazil’s Supreme Court recently decided to grant welfare benefits to foreign residents. The benefits at issue are referred to in Português as Benefício da... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• EIRELI Law Allows Corporate Entities to Own Single-Member Companies

  

  For years, it was the norm that legal entities in Brazil would have a minimum of two shareholders. No matter the percentage distribution of shares, there had... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Brazil Announces New Repatriation Program for 2017

  

  The repatriation program introduced in 2016 that allowed Brazilians to legalize their formerly undeclared foreign assets in Brazil will be renewed in 2017. Law... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Brazil Embraces New Trade as U.S. Closes Its Doors

  

  Brazil is a notoriously difficult country for foreigners to do business. Its famous bureaucracy and ambiguous attitude to foreign trade places it second only... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Brazilian President Predicts End of Recession in 2017

  

  For those asking when the dark days of Brazil’s economic recession will end, President Michel Temer has an answer. According to the Brazilian president, 2017... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Temer Passes Law to Tax Tips in Brazil

  

  On March 13, Brazilian President Michel Temer signed Law 13.419. The new law, which seeks to regulate how tips in restaurants are distributed and taxed, is... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Brazil’s New ISS Tax Law Brings Major Changes

  

  Authorities hope a new tax law, Supplementary Law 157/16, will bring some much needed change to Brazil’s utterly complex tax code. Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Brazil’s Fintech Groups Talk Regulation

  

  What started as a small financial startup movement in São Paulo has morphed into a major player in Brazil’s financial sector. And although the majority are stil... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Foreign Investment in Brazil Hits Record Levels

  

  Despite its economic difficulties, foreign companies have continued to invest in Brazil. A recent Financial Times article revealed that direct foreign investmen... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Brazil Introduces Lenient New Bankruptcy Law

  

  Brazil’s troubled economy has led to record numbers of companies filing for bankruptcy. That may come as no surprise considering Brazil’s current recession is... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Deadline for Foreigners to File CBE Declaration of Assets Abroad

  

  By now it should come as no surprise that foreign residents of Brazil are subject to taxation on both their local income and their income abroad. Income taxes... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Brazil to Join International Exchange of Fiscal Information Agreement

  

  For Brazilians with offshore companies, bank accounts or trusts, a new international fiscal information exchange agreement is about to make life difficult. Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2017 LEGAL, SOCIETY