Finance Committee approves urgency for bill on online betting that could double taxation in the sector.

The Finance and Taxation Committee (CFT) approved Request No. 99/2025, which requests urgent consideration for Bill 5.076/2025, related to online betting in Brazil. The decision took place this Wednesday (22) during a meeting of the committee in the Chamber of Deputies.

Bill 5.076/2025 proposes adjustments to the legislation regulating online betting in the country. The proposal seeks to increase transparency in operations, establish a more balanced tax system, and provide greater legal certainty for companies in the sector. Specifically, the bill aims to raise the tax rate on gross betting revenue from 12% to 24%, according to the versions being discussed by parliamentarians.

One of the main objectives of the project is to avoid overlapping regulatory rules. The initiative aims to harmonize existing regulations with the previously implemented federal regulatory framework, eliminating potential conflicts between different levels of regulation.

The push for approval of the bill is being led by PT (Workers' Party) deputies with the support of the government's economic team. "We can only choose two projects per year to request urgent consideration from President Hugo Motta, and we will vote on them this Wednesday," explained the president of the CFT (Committee on Finance and Taxation), Rogério Correia (PT-MG).

The urgent request will now proceed to the Chamber of Deputies' Board of Directors for analysis. If approved, Bill 5.076/2025 could be voted on directly in plenary, without needing to go through all the House's thematic committees. Parliamentarians from the government's base expect the vote to take place today.

During the panel “The Arena of Numbers: The Betting Market from the Perspective of Businessmen and the Government in Brazil”, held at BiS Brasília, Plínio Jorge Lemos, President of the National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL), expressed concern about the impact of a possible adjustment in the taxation of bets: “I think that in addition to the rule change in the middle of the game, which is very worrying, we have to separate the 82 licensed companies into large, medium and small. The large ones, with this increase, will continue to survive. The medium ones will have to work very hard to stay in the market. Now, the small ones, they will survive, okay? Because the impact of these six percent, which is directly from the GGR, has a very large impact on the final revenue of the net profit.”

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BILL NO. , of 2025
(From Mr. Lindbergh Farias)

Amends Law No. 13.756, of December 12, 2018, which provides for the National Public Security Fund (FNSP), the allocation of proceeds from lottery collection, and the commercial promotion and lottery modality known as fixed-odds betting; amends Laws No. 8.212, of July 24, 1991, 9.615, of March 24, 1998, 10.891, of July 9, 2004, 11.473, of May 10, 2007, and 13.675, of June 11, 2018; and revokes provisions of Laws No. 6.168, of December 9, 1974, 6.717, of November 12, 1979, 8.313, of December 23, 1991, 9.649, of May 27, 1998, 10.260, of July 12, 2001, 11.345, of September 14, 2006, and 13.155, of August 4, 2015, of Complementary Law No. 79, of January 7, 1994, and of Decree-Laws No. 204, of February 27, 1967, and 594, of May 27, 1969, Laws No. 6.905, of May 11, 1981, 9.092, of September 12, 1995, 9.999, of August 30, 2000, 10.201, of February 14, 2001, and 10.746, of October 10, 2003, and Decree-Laws No. 1.405, of June 20, 1975, and 1.923, of January 20, 1982

The National Congress decrees:
Article 1. Law No. 13.756, of December 12, 2018, shall be amended to read as follows:
“Article 30. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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§ 1-A Of the proceeds collected after deducting the amounts referred to in items III and V of the heading of this article, 76% (seventy-six percent) shall be allocated to cover the operating and maintenance expenses of the lottery operator for fixed-odds betting and other betting games, excluding the lottery modalities provided for in this Law, 12% (twelve percent) shall be allocated to social security, for actions in the area of ​​health and without prejudice to the allocation provided for in item IV-A, and 12% (twelve percent) shall have the following allocations:”

Article 2. This Law enters into force on the date of its publication and takes effect from the date of publication.
first day of the fourth month following the month of its publication.