Senator Alvaro Dias
Senator Alvaro Dias
On Tuesday morning, the Economic Affairs Committee approved PLS 62/2007, which creates instruments to prevent Caixa’s lotteries from being used for money laundering.
Senators have replaced initiative from Senator
José Pimentel (PT-CE) with a bill presented by Alvaro Dias (PV-PR), so the
matter will be voted at the next deliberative meeting of the commission.
According to the approved project, Caixa Economica Federal or any other legal
entity authorized to explore lotteries must keep for at least five years the records
of information on each edition of the draws and their winners. The obligation
also reaches lottery retailers and permission holders.
Records of the following items must be kept: kind of lottery, drawr date and
number, date of payment, prize amount and description, whether it was paid in
cash or in goods, and the way of payment.
It will also be necessary to register the
full name of the winner of the prize, identification and registration number in
the Registry of Individuals of the Federal Revenue Service (CPF). PLS 62/2007
also considers the collection of information of lottery retailers, the
identification of their legal guardians and the address where bets are received,
as well as the paying establishment.
During the process the bill had an amendment proposed by the former senator
Pedro Taques, who modified the original text to avoid conflicts with rules included
in Law 9.613/1998 and a sub-amendment of Senator Fernando Bezerra Coelho that
required mandatory registration of prize payments only for those that exceed
the income tax exemption limit (close to US$ 610 in the Individual Income Tax
Table for the base year of 2015, effective starting at the beginning of 2017 ).
The bill was proposed by Senator Alvaro Dias in order to avoid cases such as the one cited by him in the justification of the proposal, when a single person cashed 107 prizes on the same day in seven lottery modalities.
Source: GMB / Agência Senado
