Brazil’s Federal Revenue collects R$ 11.12 billion from betting and gambling from January to September 2026

Brazil’s Receita Federal collected R$ 11.116 billion from the taxation of betting and gambling, including Caixa lotteries, between January and September 2026, up 55.10% from R$ 7.167 billion in the same period of 2025. For PSPs, acquirers, and operators in Brazil, the important part is that September was the last full month before the effects of the betting ban started to show up in the tax numbers.

1. In September alone, the sector paid R$ 1.206 billion, up 3.70% from R$ 1.163 billion in August. That was the last closed month with authorized betting houses operating at full capacity before the effects of Medida Provisória nº 1.394/2026, signed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) on 25 September, begin to appear in October figures.
2. The Receita Federal said the R$ 11.116 billion includes federal taxes such as IRPJ, CSLL, and PIS/Cofins. These are the amounts collected by the tax authority, not gross gaming revenue, and the funds are then allocated back into public policies across different areas.
3. According to Marcelo Gomide, coordinator of Forecasting and Analysis at Receita Federal, fixed-odds betting companies paid R$ 3.72 billion in legal earmarked allocations from January to September, referring to transfers to beneficiaries set out in Law No. 14.790/2023, including sport, tourism, and public security. They also paid R$ 3.14 billion in federal taxes and contributions, including income tax, PIS, and Cofins.
4. Gomide said bets kept collecting normally in September because the provisional measure was published at the end of the month. Claudemir Malaquias, head of the Center for Tax and Customs Studies, added that some revenue linked to the sector will continue to flow into public coffers because the measure does not cover all betting modalities.
5. After an August contraction of 20.51%, attributed in part to a post-World Cup hangover, September recovered 3.70% but still stayed below the R$ 1.4 billion monthly level seen between April and July. Versus September 2025, when the month came in at R$ 1.310 billion, September 2026 was down 7.94%, while the 2026 monthly average stood at R$ 1.235 billion.