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Brazil: Tax on foreign capital inflows

Announcement

19 Oct 2009

In October 2009, 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

Implementation date

20 Oct 2009

Revocation date:

19 May 2013

Updated: 19 Oct 2009
Controls on commercial transactions and investment instruments
On 19th October 2009, Brazil imposed a 2% financial transactions tax (IOF) on foreign capital entering the country for investment in equities and fixed-income instruments (Decree n° 6,983, published o...
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