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EU AVISEI - Eles vão monitor seu PIXZ
57 statements · 1 politicians · January 13, 2026 · 3 min
Statements by Nikolas Ferreira. 57 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Opposition Action, Payment Methods, Tariff Policy, Judiciary / Anti-Corruption.
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About: defeat Lula in the second round
If we don't stop Lula, Lula will stop Brazil.
I warned.
- Neutral
About: subject PIX and payment institutions to the same banking oversight rules and require them to report transactions to the Federal Revenue Service
In January 2025, I recorded a video saying that the Lula government would monitor your PIX transactions.
Monitor.
I repeated that several times.
And I also made another thing very clear.
- Against
About: tax Pix
The government was not going to tax PIX.
No.
- Against
About: tax Pix
PIX will not be taxed.
It wasn't a tax.
It was surveillance.
Even so, they went after me.
They said I was spreading fake news.
They said I was going to be investigated.
They said I was lying.
And the next day, do you know what happened?
- Neutral
About: subject PIX and payment institutions to the same banking oversight rules and require them to report transactions to the Federal Revenue Service
The government itself revoked the instruction that created exactly that monitoring.
Huh, wasn't I lying?
Why did they revoke it?
They never answered that.
But now comes the part they hope you don't notice.
- Neutral
About: subject PIX and payment institutions to the same banking oversight rules and require them to report transactions to the Federal Revenue Service
In August 2025, the Federal Revenue Service published a new rule, Normative Instruction 2278.
- Neutral
About: adopt rules to combat money laundering and organized crime via payment systems
And on paper it says it's to combat organized crime, money laundering, fraud.
- Ambiguous
About: adopt rules to combat money laundering and organized crime via payment systems
And it sounds beautiful, right?
- Neutral
About: adopt rules to combat money laundering and organized crime via payment systems
After all, who would be against fighting crime?
- Against
About: subject PIX and payment institutions to the same banking oversight rules and require them to report transactions to the Federal Revenue Service
But behind that discourse there is a big problem.
- Neutral
About: subject PIX and payment institutions to the same banking oversight rules and require them to report transactions to the Federal Revenue Service
In Article 2 of that rule, the Federal Revenue says that payment institutions and payment arrangements, that is, PICs, Fintechs, digital wallets, will now obey the same rules as traditional banks, including in the submission of the so-called e-financeira.
Translating.
- Neutral
About: subject PIX and payment institutions to the same banking oversight rules and require them to report transactions to the Federal Revenue Service
PIX starts being treated like a bank for purposes of oversight.
- Neutral
About: subject PIX and payment institutions to the same banking oversight rules and require them to report transactions to the Federal Revenue Service
They also point to rules from another normative instruction, 1571 of 2015.
And in Article 8 of that rule, do you know what it says?
- Neutral
About: subject PIX and payment institutions to the same banking oversight rules and require them to report transactions to the Federal Revenue Service
That institutions must inform the Revenue of financial movements above 5,000 reais.
- Neutral
About: subject PIX and payment institutions to the same banking oversight rules and require them to report transactions to the Federal Revenue Service
In other words, what they revoked.
- Neutral
About: subject PIX and payment institutions to the same banking oversight rules and require them to report transactions to the Federal Revenue Service
In January 2025, after our video went viral and managed to unite the people, they brought it back in August.
- Against
About: subject PIX and payment institutions to the same banking oversight rules and require them to report transactions to the Federal Revenue Service
Only now hidden inside another rule, under another name and another discourse.
It's not a tax.
It's monitoring.
And now let's leave the legalese and go to real life.
You who are a market vendor, manicurist, motoboy, street vendor, self-employed.
- Neutral
About: subject PIX and payment institutions to the same banking oversight rules and require them to report transactions to the Federal Revenue Service
If you move more than 5,000 reais in a month via PIX, and that doesn't match what you declared on your income tax return, the Revenue will know.
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