Brazil gambling tax revenue reaches €685m in first six months of regulation
The report comes amid proposals to undo Brazil’s regulation of online gambling.
Brazil.- The Brazilian federal tax agency, Receita Federal (RFB), has disclosed the balance sheet for government revenue in June, including the collection of taxes from the newly regulated online gambling market. In the sixth month of the year, the regulated online gambling sector paid around R$ 764m (€117.7m).
That takes the total tax haul from the first six months of regulated online gambling to over R$3.8bn (€685m). As reported by Focus Gaming News Brasil, the amount collected by the federal government could be greater in the coming months as a provisional measure published on June 11 increases the tax rate on gross gaming revenue (GGR) from 12 to 18 per cent.
Meanwhile, the federal representative Luiz Carlos Hauly (Vamos-PR) has presented Draft Law No. 3636/2025 to the Chamber of Deputies in a bid to repeal laws 13,756 and 14,790 and undo the legalisation of online gambling in Brazil. Hauly’s proposal would prohibit fixed-quota betting throughout the national territory and ban advertising games of chance by physical or digital means.
He argued that there is a “growing dependence of young Brazilians on online gambling, especially through electronic games popularized on social networks.”
“These forms of gambling have spread rapidly among Brazilians, especially among young people, generating a worrying crisis of individamento and compromising the well-being of families. A prohibition is a necessary and urgent step to rescue the compromise of the State with the dignity of human people and with the future of Brazilian youth,” affirmed the deputy.
