Brazil's betting tax take reaches R$8.75 billion in January-July 2026

Federal tax collected from betting in Brazil between January and July 2026 was R$8.747 billion, up 76.86% on R$4.946 billion in the same period of 2025, according to Receita Federal data released on 25 August 2026 and reported by Gambling.com and iGamingBusiness.

July 2026 collections were R$1.463 billion, about 6% above June's R$1.385 billion. Monthly collections have stayed above R$1.4 billion since April.

Full-year 2025 betting and gaming taxes were R$9.95 billion, so seven months of 2026 already equal about 88% of that total.

Complementary Law 224/2025 raised the tax on operators' gross gaming revenue from 12% to 13% in 2026, with further steps set for the following two years:

• 2026: 13%
• 2027: 14%
• 2028: 15%

That schedule means the rate rises by one percentage point a year through 2028.

Brazil's national licensing regime, run by the Ministry of Finance's Secretariat of Prizes and Bets (SPA), began in January 2025. The collection figures include both private licensed operators and Caixa's state-run lotteries.

The 2025 comparison period falls in the first year of the licensing regime, and the tax rate on gross gaming revenue is a point higher in 2026 than in 2025. Both are background to the year-on-year change, though the sources do not break the increase down by cause.

The seven-month total was R$3.801 billion higher than the R$4.946 billion collected in January to July 2025, and works out to roughly R$1.25 billion a month on average.

In context: the collections show how large the regulated Brazilian betting sector has become in tax terms, a little over a year after licensing began.

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