FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Here are the answers to our clients’ frequently asked questions:

 

1) What can I send or bring from abroad to Brazil without paying taxes?
Your unaccompanied baggage, in other words: the set of personal goods that arrives from or is sent abroad, along with cargo knowledge or equivalent document, which the traveler receives or sends because of their trip.

2) Will I pay taxes for my unaccompanied baggage (move) when it arrives in Brazil?
No. However, the goods in the baggage must necessarily be for personal use of the traveler, compatible with the circumstances of the trip, including those intended as gifts, or to be used as your professional activity, and cannot allow the presumption of import or export for commercial or industrial purposes, due to its quantity, nature, or variety.

3) What can be considered as unaccompanied baggage?
The furniture of the residence of a traveler who is permanently transferring themselves to or from Brazil will be considered as unaccompanied baggage. Examples: furnishing;
home appliances;
clothes and other articles of clothing;
toiletries and cosmetics;
footwear;
books and journals;
tools, machines, devices and instruments needed for your profession, art, or craft;
produced pieces.

4) What is not included in the concept of unaccompanied baggage (move)?
Goods whose quantity, nature, or variety configures as import or export with commercial or industrial purposes, such as:
cars, motorcycles, scooters, motorized bicycles, motor homes, and other automotive land vehicles; aircrafts;
watercraft of any kind, jet skis and the like, and engines for watercraft;
cigarettes and beverages of Brazilian manufacturing, intended for sale exclusively abroad;
alcoholic beverages, tobacco and its manufactured substitutes, when the traveler is under 18 years old;
goods acquired by the traveler in a duty-free shop, when arriving at the country.

5) Am I required to be in Brazil when my move arrives on the destination or already be on Brazil and bring my move from abroad?
When the move arrives in Brazil, the traveler must obligatorily be in Brazil. If the traveler is already in Brazil and wants to bring his move from abroad, it’s possible, as long as he has lived in the country where the move is coming from for more than 12 months and is in Brazil for less than 3 months.

Note:
We always keep this information up to date, but the rules and regulations can change without previous warning.

HAVE A NICE TRIP AND LEAVE THE REST TO SPEEDY MOVING!