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juridical persons are required to found a sociedade civil or a sociedade commercial.<br />
Cross-border accounting between a foreign mother firm and a national subsidiary<br />
have been supervised by law since 1997, by laws IN N°243 (November 2002)<br />
and IN N°321 (April 2003), in order to prevent cross-border transfers of profits, e.g.,<br />
through offshore tax havens. 292<br />
By international comparison the legislation for an easy transfer of capital and<br />
profits to and from Brazil is relatively soft. There are no requirements for the transfer<br />
of capital and profits, as long as the money is registered at SISBACEN (Sistema de<br />
Informações Banco Central) and can thereby be supervised by the Brazilian Central<br />
Bank. Capital transfers up to the same amount as the originally invested capital are<br />
not subjected to any tax and can be transferred abroad through SISBACEN at any<br />
time, without special permission. Amounts, which exceed the originally invested<br />
amount, can also be transferred abroad without permission and are not subjected to<br />
a transfer tax, but are subjected to the withholding tax of 15%, which would apply<br />
anyway. The declaration of these capital or profit transfers is made automatically via<br />
SISBACEN online.<br />
A violation of this simple regulation can in fact only occur, if the registration at<br />
SISBACEN was omitted. In this case the “RESOLUÇÃO Nº 2883 de 30 de JULHO<br />
de 2001” applies the penal law due to the illicit cross-boarder transfer of foreign<br />
capital. 293<br />
The so-called contas CC-5 294 also contribute to a simplified capital transfer to<br />
or from Brazil. These contas CC-5 can be established by so-called “non-residents”<br />
at authorized Brazilian banks in order to transfer funds through SISBACEN to or<br />
from Brazil. The Carta 2.667/96 of 1996 introduced the so-called “Transferência<br />
Internacional em Reais” (TIR), which can be properly applied to cross-border capital<br />
transfers without profound controls, as the CC-5 in §1 and §2 permits “foreign<br />
branches of Brazilian banks, and foreign banks which operate in the country” and<br />
“financial institutions, which do not comply with the criteria stated in this paragraph”<br />
295 to make use of the contas CC-5.<br />
In 2002 more than 9 billion US-dollars were transferred from Brazil to foreign<br />
292<br />
See: AHK Brasil / Ernst&Young: So geht’s...Besteuerungen von Unternehmen in Brasilien, 1st edition. 2003,<br />
pp.18.<br />
293<br />
“Define critérios para a aplicação de penalidades relacionadas ao fluxo de capitais estrangeiros” RESOLUÇÃO Nº<br />
2883 de 30 de JULHO de 2001. Own translation: “Defines the criteria for the application of penalties related to<br />
foreign capital flows.”<br />
294<br />
The contas CC-5 where introduced by the Banco Central through the Carta-Circular n°5 on February 27, 1969.<br />
295<br />
Cited by: Idalvo Toscano: As Contas CC-5: um caso particular de flexibilização do mercado cambial, in: Reinaldo<br />
Gonçalves / Cristina França / Idalvo Toscano: O Brasil nas negociações internacionais de serviços e investimentos,<br />
Revista Argumento: Inesc, October 2002, p.151.<br />
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