Business leaders honored at “Executivo de Valor” award highlight interest rates, political risk, and legal uncertainty as key challenges 06/17/2025 For the 25 executives honored with this year’s Executivo de Valor award, high interest rates stand out as the top challenge to business performance in Brazil. Inflation, exchange rate, political instability, and legal uncertainty also […]
Agrarian Development Ministry aims to maintain subsidized credit for small-scale food production and agroecology 06/17/2025 Facing a tightening federal budget and challenging macroeconomic outlook, Brazil’s Ministry of Agrarian Development (MDA) is working to preserve low interest rates in the upcoming 2025/26 Family Farming Plan. The ministry aims to keep annual rates at 3% […]
Vote paves the way for debate on financial tax increase, but final decision hinges on spending cuts 06/17/2025 The Brazilian Lower House approved Monday (16) by 346 votes to 97 an urgency motion to advance the vote on a legislative decree (PDL) that would revoke the recent increase in the Financial Transactions Tax […]
Pix Automático launches this week while Pix Parcelado and other new features will arrive soon 06/16/2025 Most Brazilian retailers already accept Pix — Photo: Getty Images With the launch of Pix Automático this Monday, Brazil’s Central Bank (BC) has delivered the latest milestone in its innovation roadmap for the country’s instant payment system. […]
Vale, Cedro, and BNDES focus on mine and railway 06/16/2025 Sources say the federal government is pushing for the project to move forward and would prefer to see Vale take the lead — Photo: Leo Pinheiro/Valor After a period of stalled negotiations, discussions around the Bahia Mineração (Bamin) project have regained momentum. According to Valor’s […]
Firms win right to exclude service tax from social contribution base in 75% of appellate rulings; Supreme Court decision still pending 06/16/2025 Eight years after losing what became known as the “case of the century” in Brazil’s tax litigation history, the federal government now faces another potentially costly defeat. This time, companies are […]
Our partner Alberto Murray is attending the PLG International Lawyers partners’ meeting in Istanbul. Murray – Advogados is the Brazilian member firm of PLG.
ANEEL adopts compromise in years-long dispute over compensation for legacy grid assets, lowering electricity costs until 2028 06/11/2025 Decision almost halved claims of power generators, which were aiming for R$11bn Brazil’s National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL) approved on Tuesday (10) an intermediary proposal in the long-running dispute over compensation to […]
Military pensions and cap on supersalaries among proposals left untouched 06/11/2025 At a time when Congress is pressing the executive branch to rein in public spending as an alternative to raising the Financial Transactions Tax (IOF), lawmakers themselves have yet to act on fiscal reform proposals already on the table—such as […]
Employees with less schooling already average close to 36 hours per week, say researchers at FGV Ibre 06/10/2025 Adopting a shorter 36-hour workweek would primarily benefit more highly educated workers, further widening the real wage gap between them and those with lower levels of formal education. That’s the conclusion of a study by […]