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Brazil: Increase of IOF tax on overseas depositary receipts

Announcement

19 Nov 2011

In November 2011, the government of Brazil announced a rule change for commercial cross-border financial flows.

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Number of interventions

1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

0 in force

Implementation date

19 Nov 2011

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Controls on commercial transactions and investment instruments

On 19 November 2011, the Brazilian Ministry of Finance raised afinancial operations tax, also known as the IOF, of 1.5% on the issuanceof overseas depositary receipts (DR) linked to Brazilian companie...

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