Bill 2380, presented by the Chamber's Tourism Commission, provides for a reduction in the awards for federal lotteries and a reduction in the percentage previously allocated to the Brazilian Olympic Committee.
Under the proposal, the Federal Lottery would have a reduction of the prize, currently at 60%, to 57%, while defending the reduction of the percentage destined to the COB, from 1.48% to 1%. For the other lotteries (Mega-Sena, Quina, Lotofácil, Lotomania, Dupla Sena, Dia de Sorte e Super-Sete), the proposed reduction is 1.79 percentage points for prizes (from 43.79% to 42%) and 0.36 percentage point for the area destined to the COB (from 4.36% to 4%).
Lotteries in Brazil, which already have one of the smallest payouts in the world, will suffer a new loss of attractiveness if the Bill is approved.
In the justification presented in the project, it is stated that: "The measures of social distancing and restriction to commercial activities adopted in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic caused, as would be expected, a huge economic impact" and that the tourism segment was "disproportionately affected by the economic and social repercussions of the public health state of emergency.”
On the reduction of lottery prizes, the project proposes “the creation of a permanent additional source of funds for Fungetur, corresponding to 3.48% of the proceeds of the federal lottery collection and 2.97% of the proceeds of the lottery collection of numerical predictions.”
In Articles 20 and 21 of Chapter IV, which deals with fundraising for Fungetur, the project proposes changes in item II (Articles 15 and 16) of Law 13.756/18:
"Art. 20. As of the entry into force of this Law, the proceeds of the federal lottery collection will be allocated as follows:
I – 17.04% (seventeen and four hundredths percent) for social security;
II – 0.50% (fifty hundredths percent) for the FNC;
III – 0.50% (fifty hundredths percent) for Funpen;
IV – 2.22% (two integers and twenty-two hundredths percent) for the FNSP;
V – 1.00% (one percent) for the COB;
VI – 0.87% (eighty-seven hundredths percent) for the CPB;
VII – 17.39% (seventeen and thirty-nine hundredths percent) to cover the costing and maintenance expenses of the operating agent of the federal lottery;
VIII – 3.48% (three integers and forty-eight hundredths percent) for Fungetur; and
IX – 57.00% (fifty-seven percent) for the payment of prizes and the payment of the income tax levied on the prize.
Art. 21. From the entry into force of this Law, the proceeds from the collection of numerical forecasts will be allocated as follows:
I – 17.32% (seventeen and thirty-two hundredths percent) for social security;
II – 2.91% (two integers and ninety-one hundredths percent) for the FNC;
III – 3.00% (three percent) for Funpen;
IV – 6.80% (six and eighty hundredths percent) for the FNSP;
V - 4.00% (four percent) for the sports area, through the following scheme:
VI – 1.00% (one percent) for the COB;
VII – 0.87% (eighty-seven hundredths percent) for the CPB;
VIII – 2.97% (two integers and ninety-seven hundredths percent) for Fungetur;
IX – 19.13% (nineteen and thirteen hundredths percent) to cover the cost and maintenance expenses of the operator of the numerical prediction lottery;
X – 42.00% (forty-two percent) for the payment of prizes and the payment of the income tax levied on the prize.
In the project there are no considerations about the reduction of the percentage of lottery prizes.
Source: GMB
