Haddad says that PL that taxes fintechs and bets has a tax impact of less than R$5 billion

The Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, said, this Wednesday (5), that Bill (PL) 5,473/2025 – which increases taxation on bets and fintechs – has a fiscal impact of less than R$5 billion. Therefore, the processing of the text should not affect discussions on the 2026 Budget, he declared.

“It is a very small impact within the Budget to cause turbulence in the budget piece,” Haddad told journalists, at the entrance of the Ministry of Finance, in Brasília. “I will have to make a small adjustment to the Budget (if the PL is not approved), but it is small”, he reinforced.

PL 5,473 proposes doubling the taxation of bets, from 12% to 24%, and increasing the Social Contribution on Net Profit (CSLL) rate paid by fintechs, from 9% to 15% or from 15% to 20%. The text entered the agenda of the Senate’s Economic Affairs Committee (CAE) on Tuesday, but the vote ended up being postponed at the request of the rapporteur, Eduardo Braga (MDB-AM).

According to Haddad, the text is more a question of “tax justice” than of fiscal impact, and was presented at the initiative of senator Renan Calheiros (MDB-AL).

According to the minister, other points are more important for voting on the Budget Guidelines Bill (PLDO) and the 2026 Budget itself. Among them, he cited the linear cut in tax benefits and the PL that establishes the Special Regime for Update and Regularization of Assets (Rearp), in which measures to increase revenue were included.

The LDO and the Budget will be voted on normally, he said.