In July 2022, the Federal Revenue Service announced the extinction of the DIRF (Declaration of Withholding Income Tax), which will have its obligations transmitted via EFD-Reinf (Digital Fiscal Bookkeeping of Withholdings and Other Tax Information), one of the SPED modules ( Public System of Digital bookkeeping).
The forecast is that as of March 2023, companies will already be able to transition events from one obligation to another, with the total exclusion of the DIRF scheduled for early 2024.
What changes for companies
With this change, the companies that issue the DIRFs will need to adjust and generate the events within the EFD-Reinf solution, which can be carried out through integrated technological solutions that serve different types of ERP (in Portuguese, Integrated System Business Management), such as Oracle and SAP.
“The use of specific applications for the calculation of Reinf will be a priority for the generation of this obligation, since they are solutions that follow the standard that the government itself determines, all connected to management software”, explains Leonardo Brussolo, director of products at Sovos .
It should be noted that companies that do not deliver tax information correctly will be susceptible to the tax law, which can generate sanctions and harm their financial management.
“Replace the current file transmission format via text, as in DIRF, which is still costly, time-consuming and susceptible to failures, for a virtual model such as EFD-Reinf, which brings a structured, signed and validated XML format , is a trend that is expanding more and more, making the method much safer and more agile”, says Brussolo.
Also according to the executive, changes like this reflect on the journey of the Digital Transformation of the Tax Authorities.
“The path is that one day EFD-Reinf will be able to replace all the obligations that exist today in the traditional model, which validates the need to adopt technological support from now on, in order to avoid problems with the Tax Authorities”, he adds. .
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