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São Paulo to charge Services Tax on SaaS, Online Ads and Streaming Services

On 15 November 2017, the Municipality of São Paulo published Law 16,757/2017. The Law addresses, among other issues, the taxing of software as a service (“SaaS”), the online...

Withholding income tax on foreign educational, scientific or cultural services

On 21 November 2017, the Brazilian Federal Revenue Department (Receita Federal do Brasil, “RFB”) published Private Ruling 519/2017 which addresses the charging of...

e-Books: free of ‘impostos’ but not of free of ‘contribuições’

The Brazilian Federal Constitution provides in article 150(VI)(d), that no taxes are to be imposed on books, newspapers, periodicals and paper used for print. This clause aims to...

New State Sales Tax (ICMS) regulations for digital goods

On 5 October 2017, the National Council of Fiscal Policy (Conselho Nacional de Política Fazendária, “CONFAZ”) issued its first regulations on the charging of State Sales...

Brazil and China sign IP Cooperation Agreement

A delegation from Chinese State Intellectual Property Office (“SIPO”) recently visited Brazil’s Intellectual Property Office (Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial,...

Analysis of IP Agreements by INPI Made Easier

The Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (“INPI”) recently issued new regulations regarding the registration and analysis process for technology transfer...