The Minister of Institutional Relations, Alexandre Padilha, declared this Monday, 16th, that the government expects the bill that provides for the betting regulation to be approved by the Senate this October.
“We are going to work to see if we can vote as quickly as possible on regulating the rate for electronic betting,” said Padilha at a press conference.
The regulation of betting is one of the priority proposals of the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad. The intention is to increase the source of revenue, and the department projects to profit up to 12 billion reais annually with the segment fully regulated.
Initially, the proposal presented by the Federal Government was limited to online sports betting. However, the taxation began to include online casino games during its processing in the Chamber. Deputies approved the text on September 13th.
Betting regulation project in the Senate Sports Committee
As a matter of urgency, the Senate Sports Committee (CEsp) will vote on Wednesday, 18th, at 9:30 am, on the project (PL 3.626/2023). According to Agência Senado, the text was initiated by the Executive and was approved by the Chamber of Deputies on September 23.
The matter, which incorporated a provisional measure with the same content (MP 1,182/2023), deals with issues such as grant payment, new distribution of revenue, requirements and restrictions.
The project is simultaneously examined by the Economic Affairs Commission (CAE). At CEsp, the rapporteur is Senator Romário (PL-RJ).
According to the text approved by the Chamber of Deputies, 2% of the amount collected will go to social security. Other recipients of the resources will be the areas of sport (6.63%) and tourism (5%).
In sports, the amounts will be divided between the Ministry of Sports (4%), athletes (1.13%) and specific sports confederations, with percentages varying between 0.05% and 0.4%.
Half a percent of the amount will be directed to state Sports departments, which will have to distribute half to municipal Sports departments, proportionally to the city’s population. In tourism, 4% will be allocated to the Ministry of Tourism and 1% will go to Embratur.
Law 13,756, of 2018, which created this type of lottery, provided that companies would keep 95% of the revenue (after payment of prizes and Income Tax), while the project allows 82%.
Still according to the proposal, education will receive 1.82% of what is collected. Within this amount, 0.82 percentage points will be allocated to early childhood education or primary and secondary schools that have achieved targets for national assessment results. The remainder (1%) will go to public secondary technical schools.
Amendments and voting until November 11
In CAE and CEsp, the proposal received 72 amendments. As it is a project initiated by the Presidency of the Republic, it must be voted on by senators by November 11th.
