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Brazil tax revenues jump in October on asset amnesty program
BRASILIA: Extraordinary revenues from an amnesty program helped Brazil collect 148.
BRASILIA: Extraordinary revenues from an amnesty program helped Brazil collect 148.699 billion reais ($43.4 billion) in federal taxes in October, up 33 percent from a year earlier when adjusted for inflation, the government said on Friday.
October tax revenue had been expected to total 110 billion reais, according to the median forecast in a Reuters poll. The taxes and fines collected under the amnesty program for undeclared assets abroad were expected to help the government meet its 2016 budget target.
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