Brazil’s Receita Federal made a digital calculator available on 2 March to help taxpayers report 2025 gains from betting and online games in their 2026 income tax returns. The report says a 15% rate applies to annual net gains above R$ 28,467.20, with any tax due payable by 30 April 2026.
Taxpayers can use the calculator to report betting gains, while operators must provide the document used to calculate results.
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Reportedly, Brazil's Receita Federal collected R$11.116bn from betting and gambling taxation, including Caixa lotteries, between January and September 2026. September alone contributed R$1.206bn, up 3.70% on August, in the last full month before the effects of the fixed-odds betting ban.
Brazil's Receita Federal collected R$11.116bn from the taxation of betting and gambling, including Caixa lotteries, between January and September 2026, according to the agency's revenue breakdown by economic division published on Thursday 22 October. The figure is 55.10% higher than the R$7.167bn recorded in the same period of 2025.
Brazil's ban on fixed-odds betting could remove up to R$18bn in transfers to the legal beneficiaries defined by Law 14.790/2023 by the end of the five-year authorisations in 2029. The GGR contribution raised R$6.64bn over 17 months of the regulated market, and the loss is projected at R$16bn, or R$18bn with the rates already approved for 2027 and 2028. The SPA/MF figures cover net collections from January 2024 to June 2026 and transfers from February 2025 to June 2026.
Brazil's ban on fixed-odds betting could remove up to R$18bn in transfers to the legal beneficiaries defined by Law 14.790/2023 by the end of the five-year authorisations in 2029, according to figures obtained from the Treasury via freedom-of-information request and. The measure interrupting the flow is Provisional Measure (MP) No. 1.394/2026, published on 25 September.
Receita Federal secretary Robinson Barreirinhas said Brazil’s fixed-odds betting ban would redirect spending and increase tax receipts elsewhere in 2027, reported by BNLData. The outlet contrasted the government’s estimated R$5.8bn revenue loss with R$6.3bn collected from betting between January and August 2026.
Robinson Barreirinhas, secretary of Brazil's Receita Federal, said in an interview that he is not concerned about the revenue lost through the provisional measure that banned fixed-odds betting. According to Barreirinhas, money that would have gone to betting operators will instead be spent in retail, services and goods, which he said would raise tax receipts in other sectors. He said he had no doubt that receipts from other segments would rise in 2027.
Brazil’s Federal Revenue collected R$9.91 billion in taxes on betting and gambling, including Caixa lotteries, from January to August 2026, according to figures released by the agency. August collections were R$1.163 billion, 20.51% below July’s R$1.463 billion; the figures include federal taxes such as IRPJ, CSLL and PIS/Cofins.
The National Association of Games and Lotteries challenged a Federal Revenue and Public Prosecutor's operation against a sports betting company in Recife, saying retroactive taxation of pre-regulation activity is unconstitutional. ANJL argued that firms lacked a defined tax classification and payment channel before regulation took effect. Federal Revenue secretary Robinson Barreirinhas countered that evidence showed betting activity in Brazil without tax payments or compliance with national regulation.