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Chamber approves creation of two lotteries to help finance health and tourism

The plenary of the Chamber of Deputies approved, this Tuesday (30), a bill that creates two lotteries with the objective of helping to finance health and tourism in the country. The matter now goes to presidential sanction, after being approved by the Senate and the House.

The text provides that the balance of the difference between the proceeds from the collection of the “Loteria da Saúde” and the “Loteria do Turismo” and the discounts due by law (payment of prizes, contribution to social security and income tax levied on the award) will be allocated as follows:

I – in the lottery modality of numerical predictions:

a) 5% to the National Health Fund (FNS), in the case of the “Health Lottery”, and to the Brazilian Agency for the International Promotion of Tourism (Embratur), in the case of the “Tourism Lottery”;

b) 95%, at most, to cover the operating agent’s costs and maintenance.

II – in the lottery modality of sports predictions and fixed-odds bets:

a) 3.37% for the FNS, in the case of the “Loteria da Saúde”, and for Embratur, in the case of the “Loteria do Turismo”;

b) 1.63% for Brazilian sports entities that cede the rights to use their names, brands, emblems, hymns, symbols and the like for the dissemination and execution of the “Health Lottery” and the “Tourism Lottery” “;

c) 95%, at most, to cover the operating agent’s costs and maintenance.

Opposition deputies complained about the effective percentages for health and tourism, which they considered low. Some of them preferred that there was an increase in the indices or that all the net income from the lotteries went to the two areas.

The first project approved by the Chamber foresaw that Caixa Econômica Federal would run the lotteries. However, the senators modified the text to allow the new lotteries to be granted to the private sector. This point was maintained by the Chamber on Tuesday.

According to the text, the Ministry of Economy will regulate, within a maximum period of 30 days after the publication of the law, the rules for granting the exploitation of the “Health Lottery” by the Ministry of Health, and the “Tourism Lottery” by the Ministry of Health. Tourism.

The Senate also made another important change in the Chamber’s original text, which was maintained by the federal deputies when they analyzed the matter again. The first version approved by the Chamber authorized only the implementation of lotteries of numerical predictions. The latest version provides for the possibility of implementing two other lottery modalities: sports predictions and fixed-odds bets.

Source: CNN Brasil

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