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Issuance of Brazilian tax payer number (CPF) for non-Brazilians
REGISTRATION, CHANGE OF DATA, CORRECTION OF ENROLMENT AND CANCELLATION
Foreigners owning goods, properties or rights subject to public registration, such as real estate property, vehicles, boats, airplanes, bank accounts, investments in financial or capital markets in Brazil must apply for registration in the “Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas” (Natural Persons Register) of the “Secretaria da Receita Federal” (Secretariat of the Federal Revenue), regardless of their place of residence. Following the registration, a CPF number will be issued to the applicant. Everyone who receives income or own goods, properties or rights in Brazil must lodge an annual Income Tax Statement (Secretariat of the Federal Revenue, for more information on this matter check the website .). Moreover, foreign citizens owning goods, properties or rights in Brazil are also liable to additional penalties under the Brazilian legislation.)
The issuance, change of data, correction of enrolment and cancellation of CPF can be requested through this Embassy. The process may take 90 days and once completed the CPF number is published in the web page of the Secretariat of the Federal Revenue.
If you have urgency in requesting a CPF number, you should send an authorization on the name of another person to act on your behalf requesting a CPF number in Brazil (POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR APPLICATION OF A CPF NUMBER). This process, in Brazil, is quite fast and may take days or one week.
You can also request a CPF number personally, if you are in Brazil. In that case, you should contact directly the Secretariat of the Federal Revenue so as to be informed of the needed documentation (usually the passport).
DOCUMENTATION TO BE PRESENTED TO THE EMBASSY
1. One application form duly completed and signed by the applicant. The form must be downloaded by the applicant himself from the following website:
The number on the field “Código de Atendimento” (Receipt number) of the form is generated by the application as it is downloaded. Its purpose is to identify the CPF procedure in the Secretariat of the Federal Revenue. Do not make copies of the same application form for other people, for this will invalidate the original procedure.
2. Passport. A copy will be taken at the Embassy of the identifying pages of the passport (fee: AED 60,00 per copy)
3. Original Birth certificate or any other document which can prove the name of the applicants´s parents (fee: AED 60,00 per copy) and its official translation into English, if it is the case.
TRACKING YOUR CPF APPLICATION
The Embassy will merely convey your application to the Secretariat of the Federal Revenue in Brazil. Therefore, this Embassy is not responsible for the issuance of the CPF number or controls the processing time of CPF number issuance applications. You have to check yourself the status of your request at the following website within 90 days after you have applied for a CPF number:
After 90 days, it is no longer possible to check the status of your CPF request. For further enquiries, please write, in english or portuguese languages, to:
cpf.residente.exterior@receita..br
CPF CARD: CPF cards are not issued for applications lodged at the Embassy. CPF cards are issued only for applications lodged in Brazil. Abroad you will only receive a CPF number, which will be informed at the website mentioned above.
In order to prove that you have a CPF number, if need be, you will have to produce the certificate “Comprovante de Inscrição e de Situação Cadastral”, together with an identity card/passport. The certificate can be downloaded from the website of the Secretariat of the Federal Revenue.
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