Brazil was issued Provisional Measure 644/2014 in order to introduce individual income tax legislation for 2015 (tax year) and this Provisional Measure is not converted into law by the National Congress. But recently it was terminated when the National Congress sanctioned Declaratory Act 35/2014, this new act published on 4 September 2014, in the official Gazette.
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