Official position
The National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL) expresses concern over the report on Bill 5,582/2025, which proposes creating an Economic Intervention Contribution (CIDE) on sports betting, with a 15% rate applied to the bettor’s deposit.
From ANJL’s perspective, the proposal requires prior debate with the betting sector within the context of the Legal Framework for Combating Organized Crime, as it directly impacts the regulation that establishes important guidelines for economic viability and bettor protection.
It should also be noted that in no country has the taxation of the bettor’s deposit been successful, and this is due to a simple, universally recognized reason: when users notice any tax on the funds they deposit to play, they automatically migrate to illegal operators.
It is essential to clarify that the betting operator acts as a faithful custodian of the customer’s funds. The money, even after being deposited on the platform, remains the bettor’s property. Taxing this stage of the transaction would be the equivalent of charging a tax for a citizen to deposit money into a bank account or load a prepaid card — a dangerous precedent with no parallel in the Brazilian tax system.
ANJL believes that there are far more efficient and less harmful alternatives to finance public security, such as allocating part of the already substantial revenue collected from GGR taxation, without the need to create a new levy.
The creation of a new tax at this moment, when the regulated betting market is still taking its first steps, generates unpredictability, legal uncertainty, and breaks the confidence of companies that have invested billions of reais in formalizing the sector in Brazil, responding to a call from the government itself.
National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL)
Source: GMB
