Wellton Máximo       Reporter Agência Brasil

Brasília – A total of 24,370,072 Brazilians turned in individual income tax declarations this year before the midnight deadline on Friday, April 29. Anyone who missed the deadline will have to pay a fine of R$165.74, or 20% of owed taxes, whichever is higher. Brazilians are famous for leaving things for the last moment, and there was in fact a last minute rush as 3 million declarations were filed on the last day.

As of midnight, Friday, April 29, the IRS (“Receita Federal”) income tax declaration software program went off the air. A new program, for late filings, was available on Monday morning, May 2.

Allen Bennett – translator/editor The News in English

Link - Imposto de Renda: 24,3 milhões de contribuintes entregaram a declaração em 2011