Just like Netflix by the way.Īs stressed out before, steam has no official representative in this country. Steam managed to evade the taxes gov wanted to apply to it. Yes, we do have abusive taxes, which is why Nintendo official representative left Brazil, and why the PS4 had stupidly huge prices ( and even then, it was overpriced, but let's not get into that). Thankfully, there's still no law for that. Digital copies do not get taxed in Brazil. So stop the Tax excuse for this overpricing ♥♥♥♥ because it does not have anything to do with it.

Also, every game on Steam would have had their price adjusted as well, but did not happened either.

If so every game realeased today would have seen a fair increase in price together with Heavensward pre-purchase, which did not happened. According to the Federal Revenue Service, the series of taxes that are charged on imported goods aims to maintain a 'healthy competition' between domestic and foreign products. With these rates, a product that costs BRL 100 will end up costing BRL 264 (164% of its value in taxes). When a company brings a game to Brazil, it must pay on the value of the product: 20% on Import Tax, 1.65% on PIS, 7.6% on COFINS, IPI and 50% more 25% ICMS in case the product is from the State of São Paulo - each state has a value of ICMS. Address your government that thinks it's okay to place super high tariffs on anything imported into your country on the basis that they're the biggest market. You're not getting mad for nothing, but don't get mad at developers for trying to scrape a living. It's why Nintendo refuses to sell games to Brazil anymore. They're probably taking a hit selling it as cheap as they are now. If SE charged the normal price they charge outside Brazil to you, they'd be losing money on every single sale. It's why PS4's retail for $1850 USD ($4000 BRL) in Brazil.

The new tax is 60% of the game's retail value with an additional fee based on the type of machine, device, or software used. Now, this import fee has a date on it, games, devices, etc made before a certain date are unaffected. Recently Brazil passed a law charging a heavy import fee to all publishers without a business in their country, it applies even to digital distribution. Originally posted by Seraphna:Seems people in Brazil are not well informed about things their own government does.

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