Federal Revenue Program to declare IR returns slowly; see how to download

The taxpayer obliged to declare the Income Tax this year needs to download the IRPF 2022 program. The download is done on the website Receita.economia.gov.br. This Monday (7), the start date of the deadline to send the declaration, the Federal Revenue website presented flaws, part of the taxpayers were unable to download the program and others faced slowness. The IRS asked the taxpayer to come back later.

According to the tax authorities, the download failures are due to the high number of hits. The same happened with the Meu Tribu de Renda app, available in mobile app stores.

In the evening, the report managed to download the full download, but still faced slowdowns. In previous years, the IRS released the program in advance, and not on the first day of submission, and taxpayers had a longer deadline to declare. See below the step by step to install the IR program on your computer.

Learn how to download the IR program by computer:

1. Visit recipe.economia.gov.br
2. On the home page, go to My Income Tax, in the second frame
3. On the next page, click on “Download the income tax program”
4. On the right side, click on “Download program”; this option is valid for those who have Windows (if the operating system is different, click below, there are more options)
5. An icon will appear on the left side of the screen, which shows that the program is being downloaded to your computer.
6. After downloading, click on the icon, which reads “IRPF2022Win.32v1.0.exe”
7. Then go to “Run” in the frame that will appear on the computer screen
8. Answer “Yes” to the question “The IRPF 2022 program will be installed on your computer. Continue?”
9. On the next three screens, choose the “Next” option
10. Go to “Finish” and the IRPF 2022 icon will appear on your computer’s desktop

The IRS released the program that generates the IR statement at 8 am this Monday (7). This is the initial deadline for the taxpayer to report to the tax authorities. The deadline is April 29th. Whoever is obliged to declare and misses the deadline pays a minimum fine of R$ 165.74, which can reach 20% of the tax due.

The term starts with a delay of at least one week compared to previous years. The reason is the standard operation of the Internal Revenue Service after the federal government took funds from the agency in the 2022 Budget to fulfill a promise of readjustment to other categories of the civil service, such as police officers.

This year, 34.1 million declarations are expected. The taxpayer who received taxable income of more than BRL 28,559.70 in 2021 is required to declare the Income Tax 2022, which includes salary, retirement and pension, for example. If you received exempt, non-taxable or taxed exclusively at source income above R$ 40,000, you are also required to declare it.

Anyone who had transactions on the Stock Exchange, moved to the country in 2021 and was here on December 31, or made a profit from the sale of goods and rights in the year, also enters the mandatory list.

Declaration news

This year, citizens who have a silver or gold level gov.br account will be able to fill out the Income Tax on several platforms. This means that the taxpayer can start declaring the IR on the computer and finish doing it online, through Meu Imposto de Renda, within the e-CAC (Virtual Service Center of the Federal Revenue), or on the cell phone or tablet.

In addition, as of March 15, the pre-filled IR statement will be available, also for those who have a silver or gold level gov.br account. The estimate of the Federal Revenue is that 10 million users have access to this functionality.

The pre-filled declaration will have data that the IRS already has access to, such as the information that was declared by the taxpayer in 2021, in addition to the income received over the past year, which was reported by the company to the tax authorities. Health expenses, especially in the case of medical insurance, will also be filled in automatically.

However, the citizen must check what is in the pre-filled document and in the reports and receipts that he has with him. Errors are not the responsibility of the Revenue and can lead to the fine mesh of the IR, causing the taxpayer to be without a refund until he can remedy the flaws. Citizens may choose to use the data that the IRS has already filled in, change or delete them.

CHANGE IN THE STATEMENT OF DELAYED INSS AND LEGAL ACTIONS

Another novelty is in the “Accumulated Income Received” form, where INSS retirees who received court orders or arrears at the INSS post inform these amounts. This year, the program has a new field to declare the interest of the lawsuit.

RURAL ACTIVITY SHEET

In the case of those who have a rural activity, it is possible to include other people who operate the same property, with the percentage of participation of each one.

DEPENDENTS AND FOOD FOOD

For taxpayers with dependents, it will be possible to inform email and cell phone of each one of them. In addition, this year, it will be necessary to declare whether or not the dependent lives with the holder.

In the case of alimony, which are those who receive alimony, from 2022, the declarants will have to inform who pays the alimony’s pension, whether the holder or the dependent.

GOODS AND RIGHTS SHEET WILL HAVE NEW CODES

The IRS informed that as of this year the “Goods and rights” form will have new codes. The reason is the difficulty for citizens to identify which code they should use for their own good. Now, they will be groups, which will bring the codes in each of them.

Who will declare a car, for example, should choose the group “movables”. For home ownership, the option is “real estate”. The balance of savings accounts will be declared along with your income for the year.

Another novelty will be the requirement for additional information on declared assets. The Renavam number (National Automobile Registry) will be mandatory, as well as the works registration code. In the case of Renavam, it was already possible to inform it in the declaration. The IR supervisor says that 85% already declared the data.

Who is required to declare income tax

Taxpayers who fall under one or more mandatory rules are required to declare the Income Tax, which are:

1. Received taxable income above BRL 28,559.70 in 2021
2. Received exempt, non-taxable or taxed exclusively at source income above BRL 40,000
3. Obtained a capital gain on the sale of assets or rights subject to tax
4. Was exempt from capital gain tax on the sale of residential property, followed by the acquisition of another residential property within 180 days
5. Performed operations on Stock, Commodity, Futures and Similar Exchanges
6. Had, on December 31, 2021, possession or ownership of goods or rights, including bare land, above R$ 300 thousand
7. Obtained gross revenue from rural activities in an amount greater than BRL 142,798.50
8. Who wants to compensate, in 2021 or following years, for losses from rural activity from 2021 or previous years
9. The taxpayer who became a resident in Brazil in any month and was in that condition on December 31, 2021