Register a company in Brazil, the giant behind the wall.

Yes - CPF, incorporation and registrations all run by power of attorney, and the digital registries cooperate. Banks prefer meeting a signatory, so most clients pair one visit with the account. We sequence everything so the trip is short.

No - the single-member LTDA ended that era: one foreign owner, individual or corporate, holds 100%. What you do need is a resident procurador for service of process and tax matters, with powers we draft narrowly. The fake-partner workarounds of old are obsolete and were always a liability.

The presumed-profit regime: instead of taxing real profit at ≈34%, the Receita assumes a profit margin - 32% for most services - and taxes that, which for a genuine service business often lands the effective rate near 11-16% of revenue. It is legal, annual, and binding for the year. Whether it beats the full regime is pure arithmetic - ours, before you incorporate.

The historic exemption ends for cross-border flows: remittances of profits abroad carry a 10% withholding from 2026, with transition rules for pre-2026 accumulated results. Structures built this year should paper their reserves and distribution timing deliberately - we do exactly that at setup.

The Central Bank's registration of your foreign investment - capital in, loans, reinvested profits. It is not bureaucratic decoration: it is the legal basis on which dividends and capital leave Brazil as routine transfers. Money that entered unregistered exits through arguments. We register at entry, always.

Better destination, awkward journey. The dual VAT replacing ICMS, ISS, PIS and COFINS phases in through 2033, meaning both systems run in parallel and contracts, pricing and systems must speak two languages for years. For new entrants it is mostly an accounting-design question - solvable when planned, expensive when discovered.

Salary times roughly 1.7 to 1.8: INSS around 20%, FGTS 8%, the thirteenth salary, the vacation third and sundry charges - 13.33 salaries a year before benefits. The 2017 labour reform cut litigation volumes, not costs. We model the loaded cost per hire before you sign anything.

It is the national climate: labour claims are routine at exit, tax disputes run decades, and the court system is a cost centre to plan for, not a surprise. The defences are boring and effective - clean contracts, registered everything, arbitration clauses where stakes justify. Brazil is safe for the documented.

Scale and rails: 215 million consumers, Pix moving money instantly and free, e-commerce penetration climbing, and domestic niches that grow into real companies. Businesses that clear the wall find customer acquisition and payment infrastructure better than most of Europe. The wall is the moat - for those inside it.

From $2,900 for the company, from $4,900 with a bank account. CPFs and the Junta take one to three weeks together; licences and the bank stretch realistic zero-to-operating to four to eight weeks. Accounting from $400/month - Brazil is not a place to skimp on it. Renewal from $1,800/year.