The Chamber of Deputies will once again discuss the legalization of the gaming sector in Brazil on June 29, in a public hearing requested by federal deputy Newton Cardoso Jr. (MDB-MG). The meeting of the Tourism Commission will take place in Plenary 5 in person and online and will be attended by Luiz Carlos Prestes Filho, author of the book “Brazil, you're broken because you want to” (the chapters were published by GMB in 2021).
In a recent demonstration in the Chamber of Deputies, Newton Cardoso once again defended the legalization of all types of gaming verticals in Brazil to face the recovery of the economy in the country and reinforced that “Brazil needs to take steps in favor of this activity that continues to grow.”
He took the opportunity to present Prestes’ book and said that he would ask the audience to “bring another contribution to this House in order to show parliamentarians, including the Senate, the importance of the gaming sector as a modern economic activity and a great generator of investments, jobs and taxes.”
For Newton Cardoso, paraphrasing his colleague Bacelar (PV-BA), “in Brazil we do not prohibit gaming, we prohibit jobs and the collection of taxes arising from it.”
In his justification for convening the public hearing, Newton Cardoso highlights that “Luiz Carlos Prestes, one of the biggest supporters of the legalization of the sector in Brazil, is launching a book that brings together a collection of interviews held in 2021 with several personalities linked to the gaming sector in the country.”
“The book has 31 interviews with politicians, businessmen, lawyers and artists about gaming as a recreational activity and business capable of generating hundreds of thousands of formal jobs and billions of reais in taxes, and addresses from political and tax issues related to the activity in Brazil, to its representation for businesses both nationally and for the global economy,” he added.
Source: GMB
