Brazil Identifies Tax Fraud Cases: Daily
By Anna Kaiser, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – With three days left to still file taxes for Brazil’s 2013 tax season, the Receita Federal (equivalent to the IRS, Internal Revenues Services) has already found 21,000 tax forms suspicious of fraud. The most common “irregularity” suggests that companies are altering values of salaries and [...]
4G Data Services Launched in Rio: Daily
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Telecoms giant Oi launched its high-speed 4G mobile internet service in Rio on Thursday, becoming the city’s second operator to offer the service. Rival operator Claro launched its 4G services in cities hosting the FIFA Confederations Cup, including Rio, last week. TIM and Vivo [...]
64 Firms to Bid on Brazil Oil Blocks
By Maria Lopez Conde, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Sixty-four out of the 71 national and international companies that filed requests with the Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP) will be allowed to bid for Brazilian exploration blocks this May, the oil regulator announced. This represents a modest increase from the 61 firms that [...]
Europartner Helps Businesses in Brazil
By Anna Kaiser, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – As Brazil is emerging as one of the world’s largest financial powers, foreign companies are eagerly looking to expand in Latin America’s largest economy. However, the Brazilian market is exceptionally difficult to enter, ranking as the 126th most difficult country to conduct foreign business in [...]
Gaining a Competitive Edge as an International Lawyer
By @WashULaw, the online LL.M. program from top-ranked Washington University School of Law RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In today’s marketplace, more businesses are choosing to take their operations global. At the same time, lawyers are flooding the legal market. For both experienced lawyers and recent law school graduates, this means that it is more [...]
Logistics Slow Brazil Soybean Trade: Daily
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil could overtake the U.S. in terms of soybean production this year to become to the world’s largest producer of grain, O Globo newspaper reports. Yet it has been a long uphill climb for Brazil to reach this level of production, and experts are [...]
Brazil to Defend Economy at IMFC: Daily
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega is set to defend the use of unconventional monetary policies by emerging economies, including Brazil, to counteract the damaging effects of the global economic crisis, in a speech to the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) on Saturday at [...]
Carajás Complex Slowdown Pará State
By Maria Lopez Conde, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A number of companies created to make use of Brazilian mining giant Vale’s iron ore have shut down their operations in Carajás, home to the world’s largest iron ore mine, located in the northern state of Pará. Seven out of the ten companies that [...]
Brazilian Tax Day Deadline Approaching
By Maria Lopez Conde, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Both Brazilians and foreigners are preparing to declare their annual income as the April 30th deadline to file taxes with the Receita Federal (Federal Revenue) nears. Under Brazilian law, all Brazilian citizens who received an annual taxable income above R$24,556.65 in 2012 are required [...]
Eco-villas Developed in Catuçaba
By Lisa Flueckiger, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The green preserved hills of São Luiz do Paraitinga, only two hours from São Paulo and 3.5 hours from Rio de Janeiro, make a great get-away from the city to relax in nature, go hiking and horseback riding. With new eco-villas on sale at the [...]
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