Brazil collected R$ 8.747 billion from betting and gambling taxes from January to July 2026

Brazil’s Federal Revenue Service says taxes from betting and gambling, including Caixa lottery products, reached R$ 8.747 billion in January-July 2026, up 76.86% from R$ 4.946 billion in the same period of 2025. For high-risk PSPs, the useful bit is not the headline number itself but the mix behind it: tax take is rising both because the rate moved up and because activity recovered after the weak Carnival months.

1. In July alone, the gambling and betting segment contributed R$ 1.463 billion to the public coffers, compared with R$ 1.385 billion in June, a 6% month-on-month increase. The figures were released by Brazil’s Federal Revenue Service in its economic division collection balance on Tuesday (25/8).
2. The monthly analysis for July 2026 was presented by tax auditors Claudemir Malaquias, head of the Center for Tax and Customs Studies, and Marcelo Gomide, coordinator of Forecasting and Analysis at the Federal Revenue Service.
3. The reported amount includes federal taxes such as IRPJ, CSLL, PIS/Cofins and Social Security contributions. In other words, this is not just a gaming-specific levy; it is the broader tax collection that flows through the sector and then gets routed back into public policy spending.
4. Up to March, bets were taxed at 12% on GGR (Gross Gaming Revenue, the operators’ gross revenue after prize payouts). From 26 March, the rate increased to 13% under Complementary Law No. 224/2025 after the 90-day notice rule was satisfied. The schedule already sets further increases to 14% in 2027 and 15% in 2028.
5. July also closed out the 2026 World Cup, with the final played on 19 July, but the tax take still rose only 6% versus June. That was close to the prior months’ pace (+9.7% in May and +6.2% in June) and well below April’s 38.4% jump, when the tournament had not yet started.

The pattern matters for PSPs serving betting operators: the Brazilian numbers point to a market that is recovering seasonally rather than producing one-off spikes tied to major sports events. In practice, that makes tax and volume planning more about the underlying run rate than about tournament noise.