Another tax process may fall on betting houses in Brazil. Now, the Bill (PL), by Senator Alessandro Vieira (MDB-SE), presented on Wednesday (3), proposes the creation of a new 15% tax on online betting companies.
The bill, called “Anti-faction Bill”, is on the agenda of the Senate’s CCJ (Committee on Constitution and Justice) this Thursday (4). Among the adjustments, according to the proposal, is the creation of the new criminal type of criminal faction, with a penalty of 15 to 30 years.
According to the text, this initiative is expected to allocate up to R$ 30 billion annually to combat organized crime. The rapporteur stated that the bill will be temporary and will remain in effect until the implementation of the Selective Tax, which will be created by the tax reform.
Furthermore, Alessandro Vieira requests in the bill the inclusion of the new criminal offenses in the Law on Criminal Organizations. This change is included in the government’s original bill proposal. However, in the Chamber of Deputies, these classifications of acts committed by organizations were allocated to a new law.
What changes with the approval of the bill?
- Removal of the ban on prison assistance and the restriction of the right to vote for pretrial detainees;
- Custody hearings are expected to be held preferably via videoconference;
- Equating the criminal offense of forming a private militia to that of a criminal faction;
- Prohibition of visits of an intimate or similar nature;
- Increased penalties for homicide, assault, robbery, threats, extortion, and fraud when committed by criminal factions or private militias;
- The possibility of controlled operations and the infiltration of agents to investigate money laundering;
- Determining “transnationality” as a cause for increased penalty;
- Inclusion of border areas as a priority criterion for the allocation of FNSP resources.
Given this scenario, the bill also establishes specific types of offenses and aggravating circumstances for the manufacture, possession, and carrying of automatic weapons and rifles.
In the senator’s text, the distinction is “vital” because “the use of weapons of war and the proliferation of ‘clandestine factories’ cannot receive the same punitive treatment given to weapons of lesser offensive potential.”
Thus, after being evaluated by the CCJ (Committee on Constitution, Justice and Citizenship) and the Senate plenary, the text is expected to return to the Chamber of Deputies for analysis. It was already approved there on November 18th.