Episode #177: No Place To Hide: Brazil's New Crypto Tax Regime with Thiago Barbosa

Episode #177: No Place To Hide: Brazil's New Crypto Tax Regime with Thiago Barbosa

December 14, 2025 · 51 min

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Thiago Barbosa discusses Brazil's new crypto tax regime and its implications for crypto holders.

🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Ola pessoal! The era of taxation loopholes and gray areas appears to be rapidly coming to an end in Brazil. Thiago Barbosa , partner at Salles Nogueira Advogados and a crypto tax law expert, joins the show to discuss sweeping regulatory changes that will transform how Brazilian crypto holders must report and pay taxes on their digital assets. Brazil is undergoing a major compliance transformation on two fronts. First, the new DeCripto regime replaces the old Normative Instruction 1888 reporting requirements , aligning Brazil with the OECD’s Crypto Asset Reporting Framework (CARF). This isn’t just a bureaucratic update - it’s Brazil joining a global information-sharing network that enables tax authorities to exchange crypto holder data across borders . In other words, if you’re a Brazilian trading on a foreign exchange, that platform will be reporting your activity back to the Receita Federal. Perhaps the most contentious development is the Finance Ministry’s stance on applying IOF (tax on financial operations)…

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