February 27, 2020

ICMS for the industry of Santa Catarina will be 12% from Sunday

As of this Sunday (1st), the measure that reduces the rate of the Tax on the Circulation of Goods and Services (ICMS) from 17% to 12% takes effect. The approval went along with the aftermath project, which reevaluated tax incentives. This reduction was an old agenda of the Federation of...

February 11, 2020

Rural activity prior to registration can be contemplated in judicial recovery

The judgment of the special appeal was published this Monday (10/2) in which the 4th Panel of the Superior Court of Justice defined that debts incurred by a rural producer before his registration with the Board of Trade can be included in the judicial recovery. The law that governs the...

February 10, 2020

Cases in Carf can generate loss of R$ 440 million for CVC

Administrative court discusses the tourism agency's business model and leaves the sector in the spotlight. Last week, the tourism market observed the defeat of the company CVC in the Administrative Council of Tax Appeals (Carf) in a case of R$ 127.6 million, to be added to a fine and interest. THE ...

February 3, 2020

Uncertainty about contumacious can harm partners after STF decision on ICMS

According to a December STF decision, non-payment of ICMS on a regular basis may constitute a crime. One of the most important – and worrying, in the opinion of tax experts – precedents signed in 2019 by the Federal Supreme Court (STF) may have consequences in 2020. Lawyers await the ...

January 30, 2020

STJ prevents constriction of assets of rural producer who asks for judicial recovery

Considering the danger of delay, the president of the Superior Court of Justice, Minister João Otávio de Noronha, granted an injunction to suspend any constrictive and expropriation acts of assets of a rural producer seeking to apply the rules of the Judicial Recovery and Bankruptcy Law. .

January 29, 2020

Stay period can be extended to preserve recovery plan

The suspension of actions against the company undergoing judicial reorganization (stay period) may exceed the period of 180 days if the judge considers that this extension is necessary in order not to frustrate the reorganization plan. The understanding was applied by the president of the Superior Court of J...

January 28, 2020

Carf understands that mining company's holding company was created to avoid paying taxes

For the tax authorities, the Spanish holding of a company incorporated into CNS Mineração aimed to avoid the incidence of IRPJ and CSLL. Nacional Minério S/A (Namisa), a company merged into CSN Mineração, will pay taxes on profits of an indirect subsidiary abroad for 2008 in the amount of...

January 27, 2020

Judge dismisses MPT action that asked for iFood couriers to be linked

Shirley Escobar considered that there is no employment relationship due to the peculiarities of innovation. Judge Shirley Aparecida de Souza Lobo Escobar, of the 37th Labor Court of São Paulo, dismissed the public civil action brought by the Public Ministry of Labor that requested the...

January 24, 2020

Coca-Cola goes to court against Heineken for 'corporate fraud'

Company requests cancellation of the purchase of Brasil Kirin by the Dutch group. Coca-Cola Brasil and its national associations of manufacturers have filed a request with the Court of Justice of the State of São Paulo (TJSP) to annul the purchase of Brasil Kirin by Heineken and to condemn the Dutch group,...

January 14, 2020

Ambev is convicted in millionaire lawsuit related to World War II

During World War II, after the Brazilian ship Taubaté was bombed in the Mediterranean Sea by a German Air Force plane, the President of the Republic Getúlio Vargas signed Decree-Law nº 4.166/1942, which determined the blockade of goods of all Axis subjects (Ale...

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