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Municipal Taxes in Brazil

Resolve Brazilian municipal tax questions for service providers, service purchasers, property owners and property transferees in 2026. Determine the ISS municipality, service item, ordinary local rate, withholding responsibility and evidence needed before issuing an invoice or calculating a payment. Includes capital-city profiles with item-specific IT, consulting and construction distinctions, conditional local incentives, registration and filing routes, the limits of the national NFS-e rate dataset, and separate Distrito Federal treatment. Covers IPTU versus rural ITR, ITBI valuation, capital contributions and unresolved assignments of acquisition rights. Use for ISS local rates, municipal registration, retained ISS, construction materials, service imports or exports, IPTU and ITBI. Municipal profiles have explicit coverage limits; this is not a complete local tax code for every city.

Brazil · tax year 2026 · changed 12 Nov 2026

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Key figures: Brazil, 2026

Answer neededStart hereOutput boundary
Which municipality receives ISS?Situs sequence belowActual establishment, service item and exception; not a nationwide destination rule
IT or consulting rate?Exact service description, then the capital profileDistinguish IT consultancy from residual general consultancy; substantiate every incentive
Should the purchaser retain ISS?Liability sequence, then local designationA withholding entry must name its legal basis and municipality
National invoice standard?Brazil e-invoicingThis Guide supplies local registration and payment facts, not XML implementation
CBS/IBS, federal service contributions or ICMS?Indirect-tax classifier, then federal contributionsMunicipal ISS remains a separate analysis in 2026
Simples or MEI?Simples NacionalThe ordinary municipal rates below do not replace the regime's ISS component or retention rules
IPTU or ITBI?Property sequence belowA local valuation, rate, benefit and payment act is still required for a payable amount

The full skill

General reference only. This skill is general tax/accounting reference material for AI-assisted workflows. It has not been reviewed for any specific person's facts, documents, elections, deadlines, residency, filing status, or local procedures. Do not rely on it to file, pay, amend, or take a tax position without review by a qualified professional in the relevant jurisdiction.

Not yet approved. Source-cited draft, checked against the stated official materials on 11 November 2026. A profile confirms only the items, conditions and source portions stated here. It does not attest that every local benefit, administrative calendar or special regime has been exhausted.

Who this applies to

Use this Guide for a provider or purchaser of a listed service, an owner or possessor of urban property, or a party to an onerous property transaction. Select the municipality of the taxable event before selecting its rate. A customer's address, the invoice emitter and the place where a bank pays are different facts.

Answer neededStart hereOutput boundary
Which municipality receives ISS?Situs sequence belowActual establishment, service item and exception; not a nationwide destination rule
IT or consulting rate?Exact service description, then the capital profileDistinguish IT consultancy from residual general consultancy; substantiate every incentive
Should the purchaser retain ISS?Liability sequence, then local designationA withholding entry must name its legal basis and municipality
National invoice standard?Brazil e-invoicingThis Guide supplies local registration and payment facts, not XML implementation
CBS/IBS, federal service contributions or ICMS?Indirect-tax classifier, then federal contributionsMunicipal ISS remains a separate analysis in 2026
Simples or MEI?Simples NacionalThe ordinary municipal rates below do not replace the regime's ISS component or retention rules
IPTU or ITBI?Property sequence belowA local valuation, rate, benefit and payment act is still required for a payable amount

This is a new job. It supplements the national owners and does not rewrite their national rate cards. The capital matrix covers every state capital as a research destination and separately explains Brasília/DF. Entries marked pending cannot produce a supported local payable amount. Non-capital municipalities use the same legal method and the national dataset as a locator, followed by their own current legislation.

Rates, bands and thresholds

Service classification and local rate selection

Apply these ordinary ad valorem rates only after establishing that the service is taxable in the named jurisdiction, the operation date falls within the cited rule, and neither Simples, fixed professional taxation, immunity, exemption nor a special assessment changes the result. The federal list identifies services; it does not set one local IT rate. The LC 116/2003 list, items 1, 7 and 17 distinguishes IT consultancy in 1.06 from residual consultancy in 17.01. CNAE is activity evidence and can be an express eligibility condition; it does not replace the actual supplied service.

Jurisdiction and legal provisionOrdinary item-specific resultConditions and narrower branchesOfficial text
São Paulo, Lei 13.701/2003 art. 16 III, I(a), IVItem 1 except 1.09: 2.9%; 1.09: 2%; residual 17.01: 5%Item 1 includes genuine IT consultancy. Streaming has its separate item; general management consultancy does not become IT because software is used. Test the complete current art. 16 exceptions and any evidenced special regime.https://legislacao.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/lei-13701-de-24-de-dezembro-de-2003/consolidado
Belo Horizonte, Lei 8.725/2003 art. 14 II(a), II(b), IVItem 1: 2.5%; residual 17.01: 5%Public-opinion research within 17.01 is 2.5% under II(b), not the residual rate. Do not reverse the columns in the authority's historical rate-change table: the IT rate shown from May 2014 is 2.5%. Professional societies and qualifying cooperatives require separate analysis.https://fazenda.pbh.gov.br/legislacao/formkey.asp?key=542
Curitiba, LC 40/2001 art. 4 IV and I(e), §1Ordinary IT and residual general consultancy: 5%2% is available to the actual call-centre/remote technical-assistance activities described in §1, performed through telephone, email, chat and fax treatment. A label such as software support does not establish that branch.https://legisladocexterno.curitiba.pr.gov.br/VisualizarHTML.aspx?id=41
Fortaleza, LC 159/2013 art. 245 II, III, consolidated through LC 452/2025Ordinary item 1 and residual 17.01: 5%; construction 7.02, 7.04 and 7.05: 3%The list in art. 245 I contains specific reduced services, not a generic IT category. Distinguish the service-price regime from autonomous-professional and professional-society taxation.https://www.sefin.fortaleza.ce.gov.br/anexoCT/24/fak3yj2cw.3541423/pdf/C%C3%B3digo%20Tribut%C3%A1rio%20do%20Munic%C3%ADpio%20de%20Fortaleza%20atualizado%20at%C3%A9%20Dez-2025%20-%20LC%20452-2025
Macapá, LC 144/2021 arts. 276-277 and Annex XIIT 1.01-1.09 and residual 17.01: 5%Read LC 209/2025 with the code for construction deductions, licensing and local fees. Its amended fee annex is not a replacement ISS rate list. Fixed autonomous-professional taxation is separate.https://macapa.ap.gov.br/portal/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/LEI_COMPLEMENTAR_N_144_2021_PMM_com_alteracoes.pdf
Porto Velho, Decreto 18.749/2023 art. 563 I(e), II, implementing LC 878/20212% for 1.04 only when the corresponding activity is the provider's principal activity; 5% for remaining ordinary servicesDo not extend the 1.04 principal-activity condition to 1.06 IT consultancy or to 1.05 licensing. Confirm actual principal activity, actual contract and current municipal registration. The cited rate authority is the municipal regulation; the complete current statutory amendment chain remains a stated limit.https://sapl.portovelho.ro.leg.br/ta/7519/text
Rio de Janeiro, Lei 691/1984 art. 33 I, II(6), II(19), II(23), official code consolidated through 28 February 2026Residual service: 5%; bespoke computer-program generation: 2%; 1.09: 2%Other item 1 services can be 2% under II(19) only with the specified provider location in the Ilha do Bom Jesus/UFRJ technology-park areas or Porto urban-operation area, excluding Avenida Presidente Vargas and Avenida Rio Branco. The current table also has narrow 2% branches for listed services, including 17.01, supplied by qualifying exchanges or Central Bank-authorised CCP/SSS entities, subject to regulation (II32-33); those are not ordinary consultancy concessions. LC 235's temporary fiscal-recovery table and benefit-review mechanism require their actual trigger and later acts: a bill-submission deadline is not an automatic rate change, and the compilation notes revocation of the earlier implementing decree. Later post-consolidation continuation/current regulation remains operation-specific.https://mail.camara.rj.gov.br/Apl/Legislativos/contlei.nsf/3f9398ab330dbab883256d6b0050f039/eda5d6a190cd4993032576ac00738dc8/%24FILE/1%20LEIS%20-%20REDA%C3%87%C3%83O%20ATUAL%20atualizado%20at%C3%A9%2028.02.2026.pdf
Salvador, Lei 7.186/2006 Annex III, Tabela de Receita II, 2026 table items 28 and 21Remaining listed services: 5%Item 21's 2% branch covers only programming; creation of computer programs, including electronic games; and planning, creation, maintenance and updating of web pages (21.01-21.03). It does not list IT consultancy or every item 1 service. It requires a company outside Simples established in an eligible RENOVACENTRO property. Table note 9 limits the reduction to five years from the operating permit, requires services within the statutory polygon and addresses companies newly installing in the program's property units. Separate high-technology and geographic benefit lines have their own qualifications. Being an IT company or using a virtual office does not establish entitlement. Formal admission and current implementing conditions are required.https://www2.sefaz.salvador.ba.gov.br/storage/9732/3.-Anexo-III--Tabela-Receita-II---ISS---Alt-Lei-9.534-9.562-e-9.601-24%2C-9.767-23-E-9.823.2024.pdf
Goiânia, LC 344/2021 art. 226 §1 III(a), VIII, §§9-10Remaining company activities: 5%; qualifying item 1 branch: 2%The law gives item 1 a transitional 2% rule while the specified technology/innovation pole is not implemented; after implementation the territorial/program conditions and the Estação Digital concession's term matter. The implementation fact and the taxpayer's applicable branch are not confirmed here. Do not select either IT rate from the platform alone. General residual consultancy follows VIII unless a separate evidenced regime applies.https://www.goiania.go.gov.br/html/gabinete_civil/sileg/dados/legis/2021/lc_20210930_000000344.html
Porto Alegre, LC 7/1973 art. 21 and Tabela XII, LC 966/2022, LC 998/2023; official consolidated collection dated 20241.01, 1.02 and 1.04-1.09: 2%; 1.03 processing/data-processing services: 5%, remaining 1.03 services: 2%; residual 17.01: 5%Do not collapse every item 1 service to 2%. The collection shows 2.5% for 7.02/7.05 from June 2024 under LC 998/2023. Its stated 2038 end date cannot override the national ISS transition. The collection is a dated consolidation, not a complete 2026 amendment search certificate.https://prefeitura.poa.br/sites/default/files/usu_doc/sites/smf/Colet%C3%A2nea%20da%20legisla%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20do%20ISS%20-%202024%20v10_04_2024%20VF.pdf
Recife, Lei 15.563/1991 art. 116 V, official 2026 consolidation through Lei 19.490/2026Ordinary item 1 IT and residual general consultancy: 5%The ordinary company/service-price branch is distinct from cooperative/professional regimes and specific benefits. Porto Digital and RECENTRO require their own current concession and activity/location evidence; no reduced rate is assumed here. Art. 108-A excludes municipal ISS benefits for Simples optants. Municipal service numbering differs from the federal list in places: map actual descriptions, not just a copied number.https://recifeemdia.recife.pe.gov.br/sites/default/files/CTM_COMPILADO.pdf
Natal, Lei 3.882/1989 art. 74 II, current official consolidation including LC 271/2025 and 2026 valuesOrdinary remaining services, including IT and residual consultancy: 5%The printed earlier reduced-rate paragraphs are revoked. Fixed professional treatment, Simples and a separately established incentive require their own branch; the ordinary rate does not establish entitlement to a technology-park benefit.https://www.natal.rn.gov.br/sefin/legislacao/lei/lei3.882_39.pdf
Palmas, LC 285/2013 art. 57 III, official consolidation dated 2023Ordinary remaining activities, including IT and residual consultancy: 5% in the read textThe ordinary rule differs from fixed autonomous/professional-society treatment. The later amendment chain through the actual 2026 period remains unconfirmed; do not use an older reduced-IT-rate announcement to displace the statutory rule, or treat this dated consolidation as a complete current-law certificate.https://legislativo.palmas.to.gov.br/media/leis/lei-complementar-285-2013-10-31-20-11-2023-16-47-59.pdf
Boa Vista/RR, Lei 1.223/2009 art. 164/Tabela I; original gazette visually readOriginal table: 1.01-1.08 IT and residual 17.01 consultancy 5%; works 7.02/7.04/7.05 3%The original annex and later payment amendment are actually read, but the complete current rate/incentive amendment chain remains pending. Do not extend the older eight IT rows to a later-added service without its current local provision; do not infer current fixed UFM values from this table.https://sapl.boavista.rr.leg.br/media/sapl/public/normajuridica/2009/2566/lei_no_1223_de_29_de_dezembro_de_2009.pdf
Cuiabá, LC 43/1997 arts. 244, 247 and Tabela I, official CTM 2026 including LC 594/2025Ordinary remaining services, including IT and general consultancy: 5%Table item 02 is residual, distinct from fixed professionals and the specific reduced activities. The 2% Historic Centre/night-operation branch is limited to the listed 8.01/8.02 education services and the art. 367-A quadrilateral: Avenida Mato Grosso to Avenida Isaac Póvoas, and Avenida Tenente Cel. Duarte to Avenida Presidente Marques. It is not an IT rate. Current art. 247 allocates by each actual service, rather than the revoked predominant-activity criteria. NFSA-e has its separate art. 245 sole-paragraph rule.https://onlinecba.issnetonline.com.br/cuiaba/online/login/Login.aspx?getFile=1528
Distrito Federal, LC 963/2020 art. 1 and Annex2% on the enumerated IT services supplied by a legal person whose principal activity is classified in the AnnexRetain principal CNAE evidence and actual IT-service facts. Annex families cover software development, web design, customisable/non-customisable programs, IT consultancy and support. The data-hosting service description alone does not add a principal CNAE missing from the Annex. Do not apply this rule to residual management consultancy.https://www.sinj.df.gov.br/sinj/Norma/40ee803e42a8482399d4507a0c86c9c1/Lei_Complementar_963_03_01_2020.html

Aracaju's technology incentive is a separate conditional profile. The municipal transparency site hosts a reproduction of LC 183/2022 arts. 1-8, printed in March 2025. It describes a reduction from 5% to 2% for qualifying Aracaju-established technology, innovation, research and scientific-qualification services; other services of the same company are excluded. Concession requires a jobs/investment intentions protocol, annual reassessment, and continued compliance. Following notice and failure to cure, revocation brings the rate back to 5% for the noncompliance period, crediting the 2% already paid. The original gazette, current implementing act and complete later amendment chain have not been confirmed, so this Guide does not apply the incentive automatically to an invoice or to Simples. LC 183/2022, municipality-hosted reproduction, arts. 1-8.

Rio's financial-specific consultancy branches. Under art. 33 II32, the 2% branch covers only local-establishment exchange companies' services in 1.01, 1.03, 1.05, 1.07, 11.04, 15.12, 15.15, 15.16, 17.01 and 17.11, subject to regulation. II33 covers 1.01, 1.03, 1.05, 15.06, 15.07, 15.10, 15.11, 15.12, 15.15, 15.16, 17.01 and 17.19 supplied exclusively by Central Bank-authorised legal persons acting as CCP and operating SSS, also subject to regulation. Neither branch is earned merely by consulting for a financial client. Art. 32 requires segregated records for differing taxable activities; otherwise its higher-rate/combined-revenue consequences can apply. The actual LC 235 arts. 21, 25 and 26 are conditional; the compilation states that Decreto 49.835/2021 was revoked by 49.901/2021. Its deadline to send a proposed law does not itself repeal a rate. Retain the actual later act and qualifying facts before changing the ordinary result. Official 2026 consolidation, Lei 691 arts. 32-33-A and LC 235 context.

Every state capital and Brasília: what can be concluded

The legal profiles above are substantive but bounded. This matrix identifies remaining work for each capital, including where a platform row exists but the actual current municipal law has not been read. A pending city is an ordinary local coverage gap, not a claim that its taxpayers or services are outside scope.

State and capitalEvidence available and usable routeRemaining ordinary gap
AC, Rio BrancoMunicipal code and amendments index; platform snapshot contains dated service rowsCurrent consolidated ISS rate/benefit chain, registration, declaration and payment act not read; no local rate certified
AL, MaceióSEFAZ official service and tax-information routeSpecial disaster-area relief news does not establish ordinary IT rates; full current code and filing/payment conditions pending; snapshot has no capital rows
AP, MacapáLegal profile above; current municipal legislation index lists LC 209/2025 and the 2026 calendarApply the construction and TUFE changes below; read the actual period's calendar and extensions before generating a due date
AM, ManausCâmara record for Lei 2.833/2021; SEMEF professional-society procedure identifies Decreto 6.844/2026Complete current ISS law/regulation and ordinary rate list pending; do not use superseded Lei 1.089/2006 or old DAM dates as a 2026 certificate; snapshot has no rows
BA, SalvadorConditional legal profile above; SEFAZ legislation indexRENOVACENTRO admission/current implementing conditions and operation-specific extensions remain required; no blanket reduced IT rate
CE, FortalezaCurrent code through LC 452/2025; SEFIN service route and activity/substitution queryActual CPBS classification, retained-service rule, calendar and deductions election must be matched to the taxpayer; no capital rows in snapshot
ES, VitóriaSEMFA ISSQN procedure, registration/declaration routeFull current Lei 6.075/2003 and benefit amendments not read; authority general guidance and snapshot do not certify a current incentive or every IT rate
GO, GoiâniaCurrent art. 226 and relevant code context read; profile abovePole implementation, actual qualifying site and concession term decide the IT branch; snapshot is insufficient
MA, São LuísSEMFAZ substitution/CENE/CNR procedure, municipal FAQCurrent full local service-rate table, operative migration instructions and calendar pending. CENE absence is not alone authority for extra-territorial withholding
MT, CuiabáMunicipal ISSnet portal advertises CTM 2026; older official code retained in source packetThe current notice requires national NFS-e emission from 1 November 2026 for all ISSQN taxpayers, including Simples, and ends Free Nota emission after 31 October. The actual CTM 2026 attachment was subsequently downloaded through the normal browser and its relevant rate, registration, construction and property clauses read. Apply the actual substitution designation and current period regulation; do not revive revoked DES paragraphs or infer a calendar day from the national-emitter migration
MS, Campo GrandeMunicipal ISS service page and its code/amendment routesComplete current LC 59/2003 rate annex and calendar not read; no snapshot rows for capital
MG, Belo HorizonteCurrent art. 14 profile; BHISS procedures and migration noticesService-specific CTISS, actual migrated emitter, retention designation, DES/guia and calendar exceptions must be resolved; missing snapshot rows do not imply exemption
PA, BelémMunicipal ISS PJ/PF service routeOlder general page is not a complete 2026 legal rate certificate; full current law and PJ filing rules pending; snapshot has no rows
PB, João PessoaMunicipal legislation consultationFull current LC 53/2008 amendment chain, item rate and calendar pending. Historical snapshot rows ending earlier do not supply an active 2026 rate
PR, CuritibaCurrent consolidated LC 40/2001 profile and ISS-Curitiba procedureApply actual remote-assistance conditions and current issuer/cancellation instructions; do not revive the code's unconstitutional outside-provider registration penalty
PE, RecifeOfficial 2026 CTM, through Lei 19.490/2026; ordinary 5% and actual registration/establishment rules readCurrent period calendar, benefit concession and subsequent amendments require the actual operation; no snapshot rows. Optional CPOM does not replace proof of a genuine outside establishment
PI, TeresinaSEMF legislation routeCurrent CTM, later amendments and 2026 calendar not read completely; no supported ordinary local rate or snapshot capital rows
RJ, Rio de JaneiroAuthority art. 33 card and geographic/bespoke distinctions above; Câmara code recordActual 2026 consolidation retrieved and complete art. 33/33-A read, including fiscal-recovery notes and qualifying financial-service branches. Later trigger/benefit legislation, taxpayer-specific regulations and current Nota Carioca/national migration conditions remain required; snapshot has no rows
RN, NatalCurrent CTM and ISS regulation; ordinary 5%, CAM registration and payment branches belowSpecific incentive acts, actual national/local emitter cohort and later exceptional calendar changes remain operation-specific; platform entry alone is not a local legal certificate
RS, Porto AlegreTabela XII profile and LC 998/2023 official recordRead later amendments and the actual current emitter/payment instructions; 2024 collection does not establish all 2026 procedures
RO, Porto VelhoRegulation and signed LC 1.044/2025 amendment readPrincipal-activity evidence, DMS/DMST, actual emitter and current calendar remain taxpayer-specific; complete statutory amendment chain is a stated limit
RR, Boa VistaCâmara Lei 1.223/2009 record and amendmentsOriginal table visually read and LC 19/2021 payment amendment read; complete later rate/incentive chain still pending. Distinguish Boa Vista/RR from same-name municipalities; snapshot rates are not law confirmation
SC, FlorianópolisMunicipal finance legislation route, current filing-notice routeComplete current LC 7/1997 rate, professional-society regime and operative 2026 instructions pending; do not substitute another city's LC 7
SE, AracajuMunicipality-hosted LC 183/2022 reproduction and incentive conditions aboveOriginal gazette, implementation/admission and complete current ordinary rate/filing law pending; do not assume every IT service qualifies
SP, São PauloCurrent consolidated art. 16 profile; Fazenda ISS payment instructionsActual local service code, applicable designated retention and taxpayer's current national/local emission cohort remain required
TO, PalmasCâmara CTM consolidation route and dated snapshot rowsOrdinary art. 57 III and arts. 58-65 read in the official 2023 consolidation; complete later amendment chain and 2026 calendar remain pending. Older reduced-rate announcements cannot establish 2026 liability
DF, BrasíliaDistrict legal profile above; use SINJ and the DF revenue authority, not a Brasília city hallDF is not a municipality and cannot be divided into municipalities. It exercises municipal tax powers under CF arts. 32 §1 and 147; principal-CNAE qualification and current DF payment/retention procedure still required

National NFS-e platform rate data: reproducible lookup, not a legal rate engine

The official NFS-e alíquotas page describes registered platform rates covering 5,571 municipalities. Its dated 3 September 2026 ZIP contains state CSVs and a combined text file. Its existence does not prove a row for every capital or taxpayer. The archive read here has no DF CSV; absent city rows, blank rates and ended intervals occur.

For an executable lookup, use the standard-library Python below on the downloaded ZIP. Supply the actual municipality's IBGE code, the exact nine-digit snapshot service code and operation date. The code preserves each matched record; it does not infer legal situs from incidencia, map an LC item to a code, choose a benefit or treat an empty result as zero. Check the current original municipal act and the invoice system's actual current configuration separately. A September snapshot cannot certify a November administrative change.

import csv, io, json, zipfile
from datetime import date

archive = "aliquotas-municipios-20260903-extr1.zip"
ibge = "5208707"              # example lookup, not proof of situs
service = "01.06.01.000"      # exact snapshot code, not a CNAE
operation = date.fromisoformat("2026-11-11")

def source_date(value):
    return date.fromisoformat(value.strip()[:10]) if value.strip() else None

matches = []
with zipfile.ZipFile(archive) as z:
    for name in z.namelist():
        if not name.lower().endswith(".csv"):
            continue
        reader = csv.DictReader(io.TextIOWrapper(z.open(name), encoding="utf-8-sig"),
                                delimiter=";")
        for row in reader:
            if row["codigo_ibge"].strip() != ibge:
                continue
            if row["codigo_servico"].strip() != service:
                continue
            start, end = source_date(row["dt_ini"]), source_date(row["dt_fim"])
            if (start is None or start <= operation) and (end is None or operation <= end):
                matches.append({"archive_member": name, **row})
print(json.dumps({"rows": matches, "legal_rate_confirmed": False}, ensure_ascii=False))

The separate legal check matters in practice: Goiânia's art. 226 contains conditional and transitional IT rules that the archive's undifferentiated row cannot resolve. The lookup output is working-paper evidence of the platform registration, not permission to override that statute.

The base

ISS sequence: service, situs, liability, base, local rule

  1. Describe what is supplied. Reconcile the contract, deliverable, invoice and actual work to the LC 116 list. Separate 1.04 program creation, 1.05 licensing, 1.06 IT consultancy, 1.07 support and 17.01 residual consultancy where the facts support distinct services. Do not create artificial invoice splits. Under art. 1 §4, the name alone does not decide incidence. For software licensing/assignment, the STF ADIs 1.945 and 5.659 distinguish the ISS service from ICMS even for standardised software, including download/cloud delivery. Historical refunds and modulation require the actual period's decision, not a 2026 reclassification of all earlier payments.
  2. Find the actual establishment. Art. 4 requires a permanent or temporary economic/professional unit where the service activity develops. A registered office, mailbox or invoice address alone does not prove that unit. Retain staff, premises, equipment, management and delivery evidence. Apply art. 3's provider-establishment rule only after checking the exceptions below.
  3. Select the proper municipality. For ordinary listed IT and consultancy with no applicable exception, use the provider establishment or, absent it, domicile. A purchaser's preference for its city's code cannot move the tax. Test imports, construction and the specific situs exceptions before assigning a municipal revenue code. Before applying the ordinary provider rule, test a benefit or burden that unlawfully breaches art. 8-A caput/§1, preserving its express 7.02, 7.05 and 16.01 carve-outs. Under art. 3 §4, that breach moves situs to the recipient/intermediary establishment or, absent it, domicile; art. 6 §2 III makes the PJ recipient/intermediary responsible even if immune or exempt. Use br-indirect-tax for the shared numerical minimum; a lawful statutory carve-out is not a breach.
  4. Determine who must pay. Art. 5 makes the provider the taxpayer; art. 6 permits express local-law designation of a connected third party and separately identifies responsible purchasers. A contract's net-payment clause is not that law. Record the actual municipal provision, purchaser category, service, supplier regime, retention base/rate and proof of remittance. A legally responsible purchaser's duty is not erased by failure to deduct the tax from the supplier's cash payment. Before concluding that listed-service purchaser responsibility applies, retrieve and read the complete current LC 116 art. 6 §2 II subitem list and its 11.05 monitoring/tracking exception, not just the invoice's broad activity group.
  5. Build the taxable price. Under art. 7 the base is the service price. Do not deduct operating costs, payroll, third-party bills or another tax merely because they appear on an invoice. Record a specific exclusion's legal basis, admissible documents and local treatment before reducing the base. For ordinary services, tax is supported service price multiplied by the applicable local rate. Reconcile retained tax and own remittance without paying the same liability twice or inventing an automatic cross-city credit.
  6. Apply the local regime and evidence. Match the local service code, rate, incentive concession, valid registration and operation date. Link Simples cases to its national owner before computing. Fixed autonomous-professional or professional-society regimes require the profession, legal form, personal responsibility and current local admission/annual values; neither the word consultant nor a professional registration automatically qualifies.
Service or factSitus or responsibility resultSource and limit
Imported service or service begun abroadISS is due at the recipient/intermediary establishment, or domicile if none; the taker/intermediary is responsibleLC 116 arts. 1 §1, 3 I, 6 §2 I: https://www2.camara.leg.br/legin/fed/leicom/2003/leicomplementar-116-31-julho-2003-492028-normaatualizada-pl.html
Scaffolding/stage/temporary-structure supply, 3.05Place of installationLC 116 art. 3 II: same
Works 7.02, works supervision 7.19 and 14.14Place of works; current art. 3 III expressly includes 14.14 following LC 218/2025LC 116 art. 3 III: same
Demolition 7.04; repair/conservation/reform 7.05Demolition site; location of the relevant buildings/roads/bridges/portsLC 116 art. 3 IV-V: same
Waste, cleaning, gardening, effluent treatment, forestry, shoring and dredging servicesApply the specific execution/location test for the exact subitem; not simply the supplier's registered officeLC 116 art. 3 VI-XIV: same
Parking/storage, guarded/monitored assets and peopleRespect the distinct tests for 11.01, 11.02 and 11.04; monitoring/tracking must be classified before using a security exceptionLC 116 art. 3 XV-XVII and art. 6 §2 II exception: same
Entertainment other than 12.13; municipal transport; supplied labour 17.05; fairs 17.10; ports/airports item 20Respectively actual execution, municipality of transport, taker's establishment/domicile, event and facility locationLC 116 art. 3 XVIII-XXII: same
Infrastructure use 3.04 across cities; toll-road 22.01 across citiesAllocate to each municipality's territorial extension; 3.04 base apportions by the statutory relevant extension or pole countLC 116 art. 3 §§1-2 and art. 7 §1: same
Maritime servicesProvider establishment, except the specific 20.01 facility ruleLC 116 art. 3 §3: same
Purchaser-domicile rules still printed for health plans, cards/funds/consortia and leasingDo not apply invalidated destination provisions mechanically from a consolidated local codeSTF ADI 5.835, ADI 5.862, ADPF 499, judgment June 2023: https://www.stf.jus.br/arquivo/informativo/documento/informativo1097.htm
Outside provider has not registered in the customer's cityAbsence alone cannot support the unconstitutional outside-provider registration/retention mechanismSTF Tema 1020: https://portal.stf.jus.br/noticias/verNoticiaDetalhe.asp?idConteudo=461609&ori=1 ; this does not cancel a genuine local establishment's registration or lawful imported-service/construction responsibility

The STF's Tema 1020 is particularly important when a municipal code still displays an old CPOM/CENE withholding paragraph. São Paulo's current art. 9-A uses optional registration; Recife's current arts. 111-A/B provide optional CPOM and separate real-establishment evidence, and São Luís' substitution page distinguishes CENE from the non-retention certificate process. Do not infer that no municipal evidence or declaration is ever required. Resolve genuine situs, lawful responsibility and actual establishment first. São Paulo current law, Recife current arts. 111-A/B, São Luís.

Construction, service imports and exports

Construction. Separate execution 7.02, professional design/engineering, supervision 7.19, demolition, repair and actual materials sales. The service location and the rate item need not follow the same broad construction label. LC 116 art. 7 §2 I addresses materials for 7.02/7.05; it is not a universal percentage deduction and does not authorise deduction of every subcontract or reimbursed purchase. Obtain the current local deduction provision, election, project records and admissible invoices, and resolve any applicable judicial limitation before computing. The goods exception in the list for goods produced by the provider outside the worksite must also be tested. LC 116 arts. 3, 6-7 and list item 7.

Macapá provides a concrete current branch: LC 209/2025 art. 3 amended art. 247 to exclude materials produced by the provider outside the worksite only where separately identified and commercialised with ICMS incidence. Art. 4's amended art. 249 requires the provider's acquisition documents, identified issuer/recipient, full worksite address, legibility and submission for SEFIN analysis. The neighboring LC 144/2021 art. 248, not replaced by the identified LC 209 amendments, also requires permanent incorporation, actual quantities and accessory-duty compliance. It excludes temporary utilities, site barriers/signage/shelters, forms/scaffolding/protection, machinery/tools and other nonpermanent materials. Its sole paragraph bars this deduction for concrete supplied by empreitada, earthmoving and asphalt paving. Do not import another city's presumed deduction into Macapá. Current code, art. 248. Signed LC 209/2025 original, arts. 2-4.

Cuiabá construction after LC 594/2025. The actual CTM 2026 distinguishes the provider's documented-material method in art. 244 §§11-12 and its 40% estimated-base option in §13 from the 60% presumed-material deduction used with PVG estimation/arbitramento for recipient responsibility in amended §6. Drainage, sounding and well-drilling are excluded from the §13 option by §14. Do not apply a blanket material percentage to every contract. New arts. 244-C/L require a unique IOM, its use with CNO in supporting documents, DTO submission and fiscal review before Habite-se, and a TCOF acknowledgment at licensing. Art. 244-H compares recognised evidenced costs with the PVG estimate; art. 244-K separately addresses evidenced taken services, direct-labour social/work charges and incorporated materials beyond the presumption, with IOM/CNO and single-work invoices. A DTO alone without supporting documents is insufficient. Match provider versus recipient/owner liability, documents and the actual implementing procedure before calculating; do not treat the presumptive method as an unrestricted deduction from every provider invoice. CTM 2026, arts. 244 §§6,11-15 and 244-C/L.

Imports. Identify the Brazilian taker/intermediary, its establishment, exact service, price/currency evidence, invoice-equivalent/local declaration and retained ISS guide. A foreign supplier's lack of municipal registration does not remove imported-service liability. Federal contributions, cross-border withholding and CBS/IBS are additional questions routed to the national owners; local ISS does not answer them. LC 116 arts. 1 §1, 3 I and 6 §2 I.

Exports. Under art. 2 I and its sole paragraph, services whose result occurs in Brazil are not excluded merely because a foreign resident pays. Record what the customer uses, where the result is verified, the contract, deliverable, beneficiary and evidence supporting that conclusion. Separate a genuine export exclusion from a municipality's reduced rate on a taxable service for an overseas recipient. Curitiba art. 4 §2 expressly describes the latter: services developed in Brazil with a Brazilian result despite foreign payment. Do not treat foreign currency or a foreign billing address as proof of exemption. LC 116 art. 2, Curitiba LC 40/2001 art. 4 §2.

IPTU: property, location, use, base and assessment

Read the actual property's municipal legislation and assessment notice. Under CTN arts. 32-34, the taxable interest includes ownership, domínio útil or possession in the legally defined urban area; the base is the property's valor venal, excluding movable property used there. The municipal law defines the urban zone, ordinarily requiring at least two statutory public improvements: curb/paving with drainage, water supply, sewerage, public lighting, or a primary school/health post within three kilometres. Approved subdivisions intended for housing, industry or commerce in urbanisable/expansion areas have the art. 32 §2 exception; do not reject an assessment solely by counting improvements without checking it.

Actual rural use also matters. STJ Tema 174 applies ITR rather than IPTU to an urban-located property proven to be used for extractive, vegetable, agricultural, livestock or agroindustrial exploitation. A cadastral urban label alone does not close that branch; retain actual use evidence and coordinate the federal rural-tax treatment.

For a computation, obtain the assessed land/building areas, use, valuation zone, value schedule, progressive/differential rate bands, exemption recognition, annual index/update act, payment calendar and property identifier. Under CF art. 156 §1 III, added by EC 132/2023, the executive may update the base according to criteria established by municipal law. Do not say every executive valuation change beyond inflation is automatically invalid without considering that current constitutional provision and its enabling local criteria. Payment instalments and rebates are city/year-specific; no national instalment or discount is assumed. Current Constitution, arts. 147 and 156.

ITBI: transaction, valuation and corporate movements

  1. Identify the onerous inter vivos transaction, property location, parties, actual rights transferred, instrument and registration status. Current CTN art. 35, amended by LC 227/2026 with effect from publication under its art. 182 III, separately includes ownership/domínio útil, non-security real rights, and assignments of acquisition rights. Gifts and inheritances require the state ITCMD owner, not an invented municipal ITBI rate. Under arts. 41-42 the situs municipality/DF is competent and local law selects the liable party. Current CTN arts. 35-42, LC 227 arts. 165 and 182.
  2. Establish the taxable market value and local rate, distinguishing any financed portion or recognised local relief. Current art. 38 §§1-3, added in 2026, defines cash market value in normal conditions, permits specified technical criteria, requires disclosure of the valuation criteria and gives the taxpayer a contradictory-valuation route under local procedure. Preserve the transaction's condition, restrictions, financing, appraisal and comparables. Do not simply use the IPTU base as a statutory minimum. CTN art. 38.
  3. Read the established STJ Tema 1113 with the new art. 38 and art. 148 procedure. Its propositions distinguish the actual transaction from the generic IPTU schedule, presume the declared transaction consistent with market value subject to proper proceedings, and reject unilateral advance reference-value arbitration. The new 2026 technical-valuation text must be considered; this Guide does not certify every post-amendment valuation dispute or automatic refund. STJ decision explanation, CTN arts. 38 and 148.
  4. For a capital contribution, distinguish the amount actually integralised as share capital from any excess and retain corporate instruments and valuations. On 20 October 2026, the STF decided Tema 1348: the capital-realisation immunity is independent of predominantly real-estate activity, subject to simulation/fraud. The official docket read shows the judgment and published session record; this is not a claim of a final unappealable judgment or a complete modulation analysis. The separate Tema 796 excludes value exceeding the capital being integralised from the immunity. Do not deny all capital-contribution immunity merely because the company rents or deals in real estate. Tema 1348 current docket, Tema 796.
  5. Do not transplant that capital-contribution conclusion to a merger, incorporation, demerger or extinction. For the separate reorganisation rule, CTN art. 37 §§1-3 tests whether more than 50% of operational revenue in the two years before and two years after acquisition derives from the specified real-estate transactions. If the acquirer starts after acquisition or less than two years before it, use the first three years after acquisition. If predominance is established, §3 uses the acquisition-date law and value. Section 4 switches off art. 37's restriction when the transfer accompanies the alienor's entire patrimony. Retain revenue schedules and the whole-asset transfer evidence; a company label alone is insufficient. CF art. 156 §2 I, CTN arts. 36-37.
  6. Assignments of acquisition rights remain a distinct unresolved judicial branch. The current Tema 1124 docket does not establish a final merits thesis that every assignment is untaxed until property registration. The earlier reaffirmation was not retained when the STF recognised repercussion without reaffirming jurisprudence in 2022. Match the current CTN, actual right and local act, and refer a disputed cession before recommending nonpayment. Tema 1124 current docket.

Cuiabá: concrete local property branches

The read CTM 2026 supplies ordinary IPTU of 0.4% for predial property and 2% for territorial property under art. 212 I-II, with a 2026 minimum annual assessment and minimum instalment of R$77.55 in §§5-6. The tax event is 1 March under art. 208-A. Apply the actual assessed land/building classification, current valuation under arts. 212-213, and the year-specific calendar; §4's separate progressive-use legislation and the conditional exemptions in art. 362 can change the result. The code contains low-value sole-residence, protected-person residence and institutional/environmental branches; their actual grant, current thresholds and property facts must be established before applying the ordinary rates. This is a supported ordinary rate method, not an assessment notice or proof that no relief applies. CTM 2026, arts. 208-A, 212-213 and 362 I-II.

For ordinary ITBI, art. 228 II gives 2%; a qualifying Sistema Financeiro da Habitação transmission instead uses 0.5% on the amount actually financed and 2% on the remainder under I(a)-(b). An ordinary mortgage label does not establish SFH eligibility. The §§1-2 program/regularisation relief and art. 362 III require their own actual facts. Match the local liable party in art. 230 and payment/instrument rules in art. 229 to the transaction. Read the local valuation procedure with current CTN art. 38 and the above case-law guard. In particular, the code's art. 224 §1 real-estate-predominance wording cannot, by itself, displace the later Tema 1348 capital-contribution decision. No automatic pre-registration exclusion, reference-value minimum or refund is asserted. CTM 2026, arts. 223-232 and 362 III.

Deadlines and filing

Operational sequence

Create one record per establishment and competent municipality. Record the municipal registration number, actual service list item, municipal code, tax regime, liable person, invoice/declaration identifier, period, base, rate/benefit evidence, due-date act, guide and remittance receipt. Registration, permission to issue, reporting and paying are separate tasks. A federal CNPJ does not establish completion of each local registration. A paid fee does not establish a valid operating licence.

NFS-e standard versus emitter. LC 214/2025 art. 62 §1 I-II requires municipalities/DF, from 1 January 2026, to authorise the national-pattern NFS-e in the national environment or share their own emitter's standardised documents with the national environment, and to share the specified other electronic-declaration content. It does not command every provider to use the same screen or abolish all municipal returns. Load brazil-einvoice for national layouts, migration and document checks. Use the municipality's actual current emitter/cohort notice for access, cancellation, substitution and RPS conversion; national schema compatibility does not prove live taxpayer authorisation.

For each period: reconcile issued/cancelled/replaced documents, services taken, imports and retained ISS; test a nil-return duty; close the applicable local declaration; generate the correct own/retained guide; check period and jurisdiction; pay; retain receipt; reconcile the next ledger period. Do not present an unsubmitted working paper or a national invoice transmission as a completed municipal return/payment. Preserve acknowledgement numbers only after the real system returns them.

ProfileSupported local procedural factConditions and official route
São PauloOrdinary ISS due 10th of the following month; NFS-e/NFTS/DPS cases generate the guide directly in the NFS-e environment; other authorised DAMSP/payment routes remain identified by the authorityOwn versus retained liability and actual document type must match. Special calendars/regimes and nonworking-day treatment require the applicable rule. https://coleta.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/web/fazenda/w/servicos/iss/2486
Belo HorizonteRegulation art. 13, as amended by Decreto 17.649/2021: ordinary ISS due 8th of the following monthUse the actual current BHISS/national emitter route; separately resolve DES, retained services, special rules and banking-day treatment. https://fazenda.pbh.gov.br/internet/legislacao/formkey.asp?key=1124
CuritibaMunicipal authority says providers/responsible persons pay by the 20th through DAM; bookkeeping and DAM issuance are electronic in ISS-CuritibaIts stated exception covers federal public bodies in Decreto 1.637/2005. Confirm the precise competence/calendar and applicable national/local emitter, rather than moving all taxpayers to another city's deadline. https://www.curitiba.pr.gov.br/conteudo/iss-com-inscricao-municipal-para-empresas/357
Porto VelhoDecreto 18.749/2023 art. 571 II: ordinary PJ/responsible-party ISS by the 15th of the following month; public-payer rule uses the payment month under §1A provider declared devedor contumaz must prepay before document issuance under §2. For staged services, §3 uses the month after completion of each stage. Arts. 573 and 582 distinguish DMS/DMST, documents and regime exceptions. LC 1.044/2025 permits the own emitter while maintained and requires national fields; do not infer that DMS/DMST vanished. https://sapl.portovelho.ro.leg.br/ta/7519/text ; https://sapl.portovelho.ro.leg.br/media/sapl/public/normajuridica/2025/28711/lei_complementar_no_1.044_de_19_de_dezembro_de_2025_sei.pdf
GoiâniaLC 344 arts. 227-230: monthly homologation for ordinary companies, calendar-set payment dates, distinct annual fixed regimes, Cadastro MobiliárioFor a private PJ, art. 230 §5 gives 30 days from registration of its constitutive act with the competent body to register locally. Section 6 gives 30 days from the event, subject to regulation, to report factual/legal changes or temporary/definitive cessation and request suspension/cancellation. Use the actual payment calendar. Retention is on invoice emission, with the public-taker payment exception in current art. 228 §1; event advance-payment rules are distinct. https://www.goiania.go.gov.br/html/gabinete_civil/sileg/dados/legis/2021/lc_20210930_000000344.html
RecifeArt. 130 requires CMC registration for each autonomous establishment before activities, including immune/exempt taxpayers; arts. 126-127-A separate calendar-set remittance, accessory duties and invoice issuanceRetained tax is paid in the responsible person's name. Optional free CPOM may establish an outside provider's genuine establishment; art. 111-B has separate evidence exceptions for a Recife-issued invoice or ISS due Recife. No unconfirmed calendar day or current portal submission is asserted. https://recifeemdia.recife.pe.gov.br/sites/default/files/CTM_COMPILADO.pdf
NatalRegulation arts. 68 and 70: ordinary ISS and retained ISS generally by the 10th of the following month; legally cash-basis substitutes use the month after payment for retained ISSSimples follows its own legislation; special fiscal supervision can require payment per tax event when the invoice is emitted. Art. 69 has the separate monthly estimation instalment rule. Lei 3.882 arts. 75-77 require CAM registration, normally per establishment; an autonomous professional has a single registration, and registration does not replace other licences. Actual 2026 emitter implementation is separate. https://www.natal.rn.gov.br/sefin/legislacao/decreto/decreto8.162_5.pdf ; https://www.natal.rn.gov.br/sefin/legislacao/lei/lei3.882_39.pdf
PalmasRead arts. 61 and 63-64 require calendar-set remittance, registration before activities, fiscal records and declarations; public bodies may use the stated cash regime for retained taxThis is the dated 2023 consolidation. Current calendar, later amendments and actual emitter instructions are pending. Its outside-provider compulsory simplified-register provision must be read subject to STF Tema 1020, not enforced as automatic situs or withholding authority. https://legislativo.palmas.to.gov.br/media/leis/lei-complementar-285-2013-10-31-20-11-2023-16-47-59.pdf
Boa Vista/RRArt. 176 as replaced by LC 19/2021: ordinary and retained ISS by the 10th of the month after the tax event; specified public bodies retain on payment and remit in the following monthThe listed public branch includes direct administration, autarchies, foundations, public companies and mixed-capital companies. Item 12 events supplied by a person without municipal registration require advance remittance by the last business day before the event. This later wording replaces the older day-2 retained-tax rule; later exceptional calendars still need the period's act. https://sapl.boavista.rr.leg.br/media/sapl/public/normajuridica/2021/3571/lei_complementar_no019-2021-exe-_dom_5539.pdf
CuiabáArts. 251-252 require following-month remittance on the decree-set date regardless of receipt; art. 258 requires each establishment registered before preparatory activity starts. Art. 260 substitution begins from the formally notified date, respects situs, and uses service occurrence rather than cash payment; art. 261 retains its monthly withholding-report caput. Several earlier DES nil/fully-retained paragraphs are expressly revoked by LC 594/2025. Actual current municipal ISSnet notice: national emitter mandatory from 1 November 2026 for all ISSQN taxpayers, including Simples; Free Nota ends 31 October 2026Use the actual current payment-date and reporting regulation. The code and notice have distinct scopes; the public menu's correlation/cancellation downloads do not establish that every attachment or cancellation deadline was read. https://onlinecba.issnetonline.com.br/cuiaba/online/login/login.aspx
MacapáLC 209/2025 establishes TUFE and local fiscal registration per location; it replaces specified location/operation and sanitary feesThe recurring-tax event is exceptionally 1 April 2026 under art. 15 §1, not the ordinary January event. Arts. 17 and 26 contain nonincidence/exemptions, including the specified home/nonpublic and service-at-client facts, MEI and registered autonomous professionals. DAM timing depends on the decree; no unconfirmed current UFM or discount is applied. https://macapa.ap.gov.br/portal/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/LEI_COMPLEMENTAR_209_2025_COMPLETA0064.pdf

For other capitals, retain the city-specific pending item in the capital matrix until the actual current local registration, declaration and calendar text is available. Do not fill the missing date with the most common date in another municipality. IPTU and ITBI guides additionally require the correct property identifier, valuation/recognition decision and transaction-specific procedure.

Penalties and interest

There is no supported uniform municipal late-payment percentage, grace period, fine cap or interest index in this Guide. Read the competent municipality's current penalty/interest provision, the period-specific calendar, the actual infraction and any valid instalment/settlement act before calculating arrears. Separate unpaid tax, delayed declaration, document failure and breach of incentive conditions. A timely invoice does not establish timely payment.

The Aracaju LC 183/2022 reproduction, art. 6 illustrates a distinct incentive recapture, following notice and failure to cure, with credit for reduced-rate tax already paid; it is not a national late-payment formula. In Goiânia the specific call-centre noncompliance provision in art. 226 §12 addresses retroactive loss from the noncompliance date plus legal additions. Do not apply that specialised consequence to every other benefit without its own provision.

Produce an arrears working paper with the legal due date, actual payment date, calendar adjustments, each legal rate/index and its applicable period, tax already paid and the calculation result. If the current local penalty text is not confirmed, leave the arrears amount pending while completing the supported principal computation and declaration reconciliation. Disputed situs or duplicate municipal demands require a supported correction/refund route; do not offset one city's payment against another's without authority.

Cross-border points

Domestic intermunicipal services are not exports. Test actual establishment and LC 116 situs before retaining for a purchaser in a different city. Foreign services require the import recipient/intermediary analysis; foreign payments alone do not prove export nonincidence. Use Brazil cross-border tax for nonmunicipal withholding and international-tax consequences, and indirect tax for the federal/state classification. An ISS exclusion does not establish the same treatment for every federal levy or CBS/IBS.

Brasília is administered under DF tax competence, not by a municipality. CF art. 32 §1 and art. 147 allocate the relevant state/municipal powers to DF. Use district legislation and revenue procedures, not another capital's municipal rate or a missing DF row in the municipal CSV archive.

Two worked examples that recompute

Belo Horizonte: actual IT consultancy versus general management consultancy

Assume an ordinary service-price taxpayer with a genuine Belo Horizonte establishment, no Simples/fixed regime, exemption or incentive, and no applicable situs exception. The supported contract price is R$100,000, an illustrative fact. A contract actually supplying IT consultancy under 1.06 produces R$2,500 ISS at 2.5%. A different contract supplying residual management consultancy under 17.01 produces R$5,000 at 5%, absent another specific branch. The R$2,500 difference is a classification consequence, not an election to rename the same work. If the service is public-opinion research within 17.01, stop and apply art. 14 II(b), rather than the residual branch. Lei 8.725/2003 art. 14 II(a), II(b), IV.

name: BH actual IT versus residual management consultancy
inputs:
  supported_price: 100000
  it_rate: 0.025
  residual_rate: 0.05
steps:
  it_iss: supported_price * it_rate
  residual_iss: supported_price * residual_rate
  difference: residual_iss - it_iss
expected:
  it_iss: 2500
  residual_iss: 5000
  difference: 2500

Curitiba: which supported service branch fits the work?

Assume the same ordinary-regime and situs exclusions above, now with a genuine Curitiba provider and a R$60,000 supported contract price. If actual performance is the remote technical-assistance service described in art. 4 I(e), §1, delivered through the specified remote channels and supported by the contract/work records, the 2% branch produces R$1,200. If the facts instead establish ordinary IT consultancy outside that branch, 5% gives R$3,000, a R$1,800 difference. Decide from the actual work, not the more favourable result. Keep a merely unproved claim of remote assistance pending; do not approve the reduced amount from the invoice label. This example assumes no export, no competing specific classification and no special professional regime. LC 40/2001 art. 4 I(e), IV, §1.

name: Curitiba actual remote assistance branch versus ordinary IT
inputs:
  supported_price: 60000
  qualifying_remote_rate: 0.02
  ordinary_it_rate: 0.05
steps:
  qualifying_iss: supported_price * qualifying_remote_rate
  ordinary_iss: supported_price * ordinary_it_rate
  difference: ordinary_iss - qualifying_iss
expected:
  qualifying_iss: 1200
  ordinary_iss: 3000
  difference: 1800

Ask the client first

Before computing, obtain these facts from the record and supporting documents:

  1. Operation/competence date, actual provider establishment(s), recipient/intermediary location, delivery location and the evidence of the economic/professional unit.
  2. Exact contract and deliverable, proposed LC subitem and municipal code, including whether the work is creation, licensing, support, IT consultancy, general consultancy, construction, an import or an export.
  3. Legal form, principal/secondary CNAEs where relevant, Simples/MEI or fixed-professional status, and any formal incentive concession, qualifying site, term and continued-compliance evidence.
  4. Price, invoices, deductions/materials and supporting documents, purchaser responsibility category, tax already retained/paid, and who must issue, declare and remit in the competent jurisdiction.
  5. For property: identifier, location, use, ownership/possession/right, transaction/registration instruments, assessed and declared market values, financed portions, capital allocation and corporate movement.
  6. Existing local registration/emitter access, pending returns or assessments, calendar/extension notices, payments, disputes and acknowledgement evidence. Search existing workpapers before asking for facts already held.

Sources

Read dates mean the stated portions were actually read, not that the whole city code or every amendment was certified. Download receipts and the complete national snapshot are retained in the author evidence packet. The separate figure/rule ledger records exact Portuguese anchors, read portions, source limits and the new-file destination inventory. A municipal official host's reproduction and an authority rate card are identified as such; they are not silently described as signed originals.

SourceOfficial URLRead on; portion actually read
LC 116/2003, current Câmara consolidationhttps://www2.camara.leg.br/legin/fed/leicom/2003/leicomplementar-116-31-julho-2003-492028-normaatualizada-pl.html2026-11-11; Read in: Complete arts. 1-10; list item 1 and relevant item 7, 14.14, 17.01, 17.05 and 17.10, with all adjacent situs, base and responsibility conditions. The printed destination rules are read subject to the STF invalidation. The older Porto Alegre appendix is not the controlling federal source.
Current Constitution, CF arts32,147,156https://www2.camara.leg.br/legin/fed/consti/1988/constituicao-1988-5-outubro-1988-322142-normaatualizada-pl.html2026-11-11; Read in: Complete arts. 32, 147-148 and 156, including the new executive valuation power and corporate-transfer conditions. Only the stated constitutional provisions were read, rather than the whole Constitution.
CTN, current Câmara consolidationhttps://www2.camara.leg.br/legin/fed/lei/1960-1969/lei-5172-25-outubro-1966-358971-normaatualizada-pl.html2026-11-11; Read in: Complete arts. 29-42 and relevant arts. 144-148 procedural context, including the 2026 amendments. Includes the LC 227/2026 amendments. The federal text does not establish a local rate.
LC 227/2026 arts165,181-182https://www2.camara.leg.br/legin/fed/leicom/2026/leicomplementar-227-13-janeiro-2026-798657-normaatualizada-pl.html2026-11-11; Read in: Complete art. 165 CTN amendments and arts. 181-182 revocation and commencement rules. The CTN amendments take effect on publication under art. 182 III. Unrelated future provisions are not applied early.
LC 214/2025 art62https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/lcp/lcp214.htm2026-11-11; Read in: Complete art. 62 and neighboring arts. 61 and 63; national owner retains implementation details. National emitter implementation, layouts and CBS/IBS calculations remain with the existing national Guides.
São Paulo Lei 13701/2003 consolidatedhttps://legislacao.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/lei-13701-de-24-de-dezembro-de-2003/consolidado2026-11-11; Read in: Arts. 9 and 9-A responsibility/CPOM context; complete current art. 16 and applicable exceptions. This is not a complete audit of the city code. Taxpayer-specific benefit and retention conditions remain necessary.
Belo Horizonte Lei 8725/2003 consolidatedhttps://fazenda.pbh.gov.br/legislacao/formkey.asp?key=5422026-11-11; Read in: Complete current art. 14 and sole paragraph; art. 13 professional conditions and arts. 15-22 assessment/retention context. Historical struck-out wording is excluded. The current art. 14 II(a) rate is 2.5%.
BH official historical rate-change tablehttps://fazenda.pbh.gov.br/bhissdigital/aliquota/index.asp2026-11-11; Read in: Table heading, date and column order, including all relevant item 1 and 1.06 rows. The historical change runs from 2% to 2.5%, following the table headings and dates.
Curitiba LC 40/2001 consolidatedhttps://legisladocexterno.curitiba.pr.gov.br/VisualizarHTML.aspx?id=412026-11-11; Read in: Complete current art. 4, including §§1-2; art. 4-A and relevant arts. 6, 6-A, 6-B, 8, 8-A and 8-B. Historical duplicated and struck-out text is excluded. The CPOM penalty must be read subject to STF Tema 1020.
Fortaleza LC 159/2013 consolidated through LC 452/2025https://www.sefin.fortaleza.ce.gov.br/anexoCT/24/fak3yj2cw.3541423/pdf/C%C3%B3digo%20Tribut%C3%A1rio%20do%20Munic%C3%ADpio%20de%20Fortaleza%20atualizado%20at%C3%A9%20Dez-2025%20-%20LC%20452-20252026-11-11; Read in: Arts. 240-246, including every current art. 245 clause and amended versions, base/election conditions, and relevant repeal/update notes. No current indexed fixed amount for autonomous professionals is inferred from old nominal figures.
Macapá LC 144/2021, official consolidated PDFhttps://macapa.ap.gov.br/portal/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/LEI_COMPLEMENTAR_N_144_2021_PMM_com_alteracoes.pdf2026-11-11; Read in: Arts. 240-249 and 276-279; Annex XI item 1 and 17.01, with neighboring professional-society conditions. Read alongside the original LC 209/2025, rather than substituting the older LC 110/2014.
Macapá signed LC 209/2025 originalhttps://macapa.ap.gov.br/portal/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/LEI_COMPLEMENTAR_209_2025_COMPLETA0064.pdf2026-11-11; Read in: Complete arts. 1-42 on original pages 1-10; relevant quoted passages additionally checked visually; annex identity checked. The remaining 51-page fee annex was not fully audited. No UFM or tax amount is inferred from it.
Porto Velho Decreto 18749/2023 consolidatedhttps://sapl.portovelho.ro.leg.br/ta/7519/text2026-11-11; Read in: Complete arts. 562-582 on rates, assessment and payment; relevant art. 513 software and base context. The rate source is the regulation implementing LC 878. The complete later statutory amendment chain remains partial.
Porto Velho signed LC 1044/2025https://sapl.portovelho.ro.leg.br/media/sapl/public/normajuridica/2025/28711/lei_complementar_no_1.044_de_19_de_dezembro_de_2025_sei.pdf2026-11-11; Read in: Complete four-page signed original, including amendments, commencement and signature. The invoice amendments take effect on 1 January 2026. This does not prove live platform access for every taxpayer.
Rio authority ISS rate card reproducing Lei 691 art33https://carioca.rio/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Aliquotas-de-ISS-atualizado.pdf2026-11-11; Read in: Complete authority rate card, all specific rows and notes, including bespoke software, geography and streaming. The URL uses a 2022 directory, but the text includes later laws. Expired unrelated entries are not applied. The actual 2026 art. 33 was read separately; later changes require their operative acts.
Salvador 2026 AnnexIII/TabelaReceitaIIhttps://www2.sefaz.salvador.ba.gov.br/storage/9732/3.-Anexo-III--Tabela-Receita-II---ISS---Alt-Lei-9.534-9.562-e-9.601-24%2C-9.767-23-E-9.823.2024.pdf2026-11-11; Read in: Complete 2026 rate table, especially items 7-8, 13, 21 and 28, and all final notes in the actual downloaded PDF. A 2026 heading does not extend expired unrelated programs. Current benefit admission and implementation are not fully confirmed.
Goiânia LC 344/2021 current consolidationhttps://www.goiania.go.gov.br/html/gabinete_civil/sileg/dados/legis/2021/lc_20210930_000000344.html2026-11-11; Read in: Complete art. 226, including §§1-14; relevant arts. 212-215 and 228-230 and Annex benefit 23. Actual technology-pole implementation is not established. Historical duplicated versions are distinguished from current text.
Porto Alegre official ISS collection,2024 consolidationhttps://prefeitura.poa.br/sites/default/files/usu_doc/sites/smf/Colet%C3%A2nea%20da%20legisla%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20do%20ISS%20-%202024%20v10_04_2024%20VF.pdf2026-11-11; Read in: LC 7 art. 21 and Tabela XII item 1, 7.02, 7.05 and 17.01, with replacement and construction commencement notes. This is not a complete certificate of the 2026 amendment chain. The expired health-research benefit is not applied.
Porto Alegre LC 998/2023 official recordhttps://legislacao.portoalegre.rs.gov.br/norma/478052026-11-11; Read in: Official legislative-record identity and amendment scope, read with the actual table in the full collection. The official record and full collection were read. No separate fresh reading of the signed original DOCX is claimed.
DF LC 963/2020 current SINJ texthttps://www.sinj.df.gov.br/sinj/Norma/40ee803e42a8482399d4507a0c86c9c1/Lei_Complementar_963_03_01_2020.html2026-11-11; Read in: Entire arts. 1-3 and Annex, including all IT descriptions and the principal-CNAE condition. Printed CNAE formatting does not authorise adding principal activity codes absent from the Annex.
Aracaju LC 183/2022 municipality-hosted reproductionhttps://transparencia.aracaju.se.gov.br/wp-content/uploads/desoneracoes/LC_183_2022_Tecnologia_e_Inovacao.pdf2026-11-11; Read in: All three pages, complete arts. 1-8, print date and reproduction disclaimer. This is a LeisMunicipais reproduction printed on 20 March 2025, rather than a signed gazette original. Current implementation and later amendments remain pending.
STF Informativo 1007, ADIs1945/5659https://www.stf.jus.br/arquivo/informativo/documento/informativo1007.htm2026-11-11; Read in: Complete software section, including reasoning, service distinctions, operative conclusion and historical modulation context. No entitlement to a prior-period refund is asserted.
STF Informativo 1097, ADIs5835/5862/ADPF499https://www.stf.jus.br/arquivo/informativo/documento/informativo1097.htm2026-11-11; Read in: Complete ISS destination section, including the actual invalidated provisions and case identities. Only the stated ISS section was read, rather than unrelated cases in the issue.
STF official Tema 1020 judgment explanationhttps://portal.stf.jus.br/noticias/verNoticiaDetalhe.asp?idConteudo=461609&ori=12026-11-11; Read in: Entire official judgment article, including facts, national rule, dissent and thesis. The thesis is quoted from the court page. Lawful registration for a genuine local establishment and lawful retention remain separate questions.
STJ qualified precedent Tema 174https://processo.stj.jus.br/repetitivos/temas_repetitivos/pesquisa.jsp?cod_tema_final=174&cod_tema_inicial=174&novaConsulta=true&tipo_pesquisa=T2026-11-11; Read in: Complete qualified-precedent record, including thesis, context, status and dates. Actual rural use must be supported by evidence.
STJ Tema 1113 official judgment explanationhttps://www.stj.jus.br/sites/portalp/Paginas/Comunicacao/Noticias/09032022-Base-de-calculo-do-ITBI-e-o-valor-do-imovel-transmitido-em-condicoes-normais-de-mercado--define-Primeira-Secao.aspx2026-11-11; Read in: Complete official article, including all three theses and the valuation/art. 148 reasoning. Read alongside the amended CTN art. 38. No automatic conclusion about post-2026 litigation or refunds is asserted.
STF current Tema 1348 dockethttps://portal.stf.jus.br/jurisprudenciaRepercussao/verAndamentoProcesso.asp?classeProcesso=RE&incidente=6929423&numeroProcesso=1495108&numeroTema=13482026-11-11; Read in: Current decision and thesis, October judgment/session-publication entries and neighboring prior votes. No publication of the full judgment, finality or modulation beyond the stated docket observations is asserted.
STF Tema 796 dockethttps://portal.stf.jus.br/jurisprudenciaRepercussao/verAndamentoProcesso.asp?classeProcesso=RE&incidente=4529914&numeroProcesso=796376&numeroTema=7962026-11-11; Read in: Thesis, case issue, finality entry and neighboring judgment context. Immunity is limited to the capital being paid in. No taxpayer valuation election is inferred.
STF current Tema 1124 dockethttps://portal.stf.jus.br/jurisprudenciaRepercussao/verAndamentoProcesso.asp?classeProcesso=ARE&incidente=6031137&numeroProcesso=1294969&numeroTema=11242026-11-11; Read in: Current latest entries, complete 2022 embargos context and the earlier 2021 decision distinguished. No final merits thesis is asserted. The assignment-of-rights branch remains pending.
São Paulo official ISS payment procedurehttps://coleta.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/web/fazenda/w/servicos/iss/24862026-11-11; Read in: Complete operative payment paragraph and invoice/declaration-specific guide routes. Special regimes, calendar adjustments and banking-day rules are not inferred from the general payment paragraph.
BH Decreto 17649/2021https://fazenda.pbh.gov.br/internet/legislacao/formkey.asp?key=11242026-11-11; Read in: Complete decree arts. 1-3, including amended regulation art. 13 and effective-period clause. The general deadline is supported. Separate retention exceptions require their actual facts and provisions.
Curitiba registered-company ISS procedurehttps://www.curitiba.pr.gov.br/conteudo/iss-com-inscricao-municipal-para-empresas/3572026-11-11; Read in: Operative electronic bookkeeping, DAM and payment paragraphs, including the federal-body exception. Match the precise competence, calendar and current emitter to the taxpayer.
Cuiabá ISSnet public current notice/menuhttps://onlinecba.issnetonline.com.br/cuiaba/online/login/login.aspx2026-11-11; Read in: Actual browser capture nodes 82-115 for the notice and 144-180 for current download identities; no attachment contents in this notice capture; actual later code read separately. Normal browser verification completed automatically; no CAPTCHA was solved. The notice and menu were read separately from the genuine code later downloaded and independently read.
NFS-e platform rates publicationhttps://www.gov.br/nfse/pt-br/biblioteca/aliquotas2026-11-11; Read in: Complete dataset-description section and the actual dated download identity. The coverage statement describes the publication. It does not guarantee a row for every capital.
NFS-e rate snapshot of 3 September 2026https://www.gov.br/nfse/pt-br/biblioteca/aliquotas/aliquotas-municipios-20260903-extr1.zip2026-11-11; Read in: ZIP inventory and header; all capital rows machine-extracted and selected exact service/date intervals read; CLI supports every municipality in the archive. These are platform-registered rates, rather than confirmed legal rates. The archive has no DF CSV.
Recife Lei 15.563/1991, official 2026 consolidated CTMhttps://recifeemdia.recife.pe.gov.br/sites/default/files/CTM_COMPILADO.pdf2026-11-11; Read in: Complete arts. 108-A to 118, including all rate exceptions, responsibility and establishment evidence; arts. 124-133; edition heading, legislative cutoff and relevant service descriptions. The edition is updated through Lei 19.490 of 9 March 2026 and checked on 28 March 2026. Later calendar and benefit originals are not claimed as read.
Natal Lei 3.882/1989, current official consolidationhttps://www.natal.rn.gov.br/sefin/legislacao/lei/lei3.882_39.pdf2026-11-11; Read in: Complete current arts. 60, 64, 66 and 74-78, with historical revocations distinguished; edition heading and LC 271/2025 updates. Separate incentive acts and current emitter rollout were not read. No old nominal fixed amount is applied.
Natal Decreto 8.162/2007, official consolidated ISS regulationhttps://www.natal.rn.gov.br/sefin/legislacao/decreto/decreto8.162_5.pdf2026-11-11; Read in: Complete current arts. 67-74 and neighboring provisions, including all payment exceptions and relevant rate context. Historical versions must be distinguished. No audit of every 2026 operational notice is claimed.
Palmas LC 285/2013, official dated consolidationhttps://legislativo.palmas.to.gov.br/media/leis/lei-complementar-285-2013-10-31-20-11-2023-16-47-59.pdf2026-11-11; Read in: Complete arts. 57-65, including all rate and professional-regime conditions and local registration duties; relevant Annex II IT and consultancy descriptions. The consolidation is dated 2023. The complete later amendment chain and 2026 calendar remain pending.
Boa Vista Lei 1223/2009 original gazettehttps://sapl.boavista.rr.leg.br/media/sapl/public/normajuridica/2009/2566/lei_no_1223_de_29_de_dezembro_de_2009.pdf2026-11-11; Read in: ISS arts. 151-176, including full base and professional-regime conditions; original Tabela I pages 31-32 visually read for items 1, 7 and 17.01. The original table does not establish the complete 2026 amendment chain. No indexed UFM amount or later item 1.09 rate is invented.
Boa Vista LC 19/2021 original gazettehttps://sapl.boavista.rr.leg.br/media/sapl/public/normajuridica/2021/3571/lei_complementar_no019-2021-exe-_dom_5539.pdf2026-11-11; Read in: Complete four-page amending act, specifically amended arts. 176 and 281 and commencement art. 3. Unrelated gazette notices are not relied upon. The art. 176 §1 public-payer rule takes effect in the year after publication, already elapsed by 2026. Later exceptional calendars remain operation-specific.
São Luís official substitution/CENE/CNR explanationhttps://semfaz.saoluis.ma.gov.br/substituto_tributario/2026-11-11; Read in: Complete substantive explanation, FAQs and compiled-legislation section; optional CENE versus per-contract CNR distinction and the unresolved situs conflict. The explanation does not replace federal situs rules or STF Tema 1020. Absence of a CNR does not by itself authorise retention on ordinary outside-city services.
Cuiabá LC 43/1997, actual official CTM 2026 attachmenthttps://onlinecba.issnetonline.com.br/cuiaba/online/login/Login.aspx?getFile=15282026-11-11; Read in: Complete current arts. 242-252 and 257-263, including historical variants and revocations; relevant art. 239 service list; complete arts. 208-A, 212-213, 223-232, 262-A and 362 I-IV; full Tabela I and art. 367-A geography. Only the stated portions of the 157-page code were read. The current payment-date decree, entire valuation-coefficient annex and actual benefit grants are not certified. Federal law and STF decisions control conflicting local wording.
Rio Lei 691/1984, official consolidation through 28 February 2026https://mail.camara.rj.gov.br/Apl/Legislativos/contlei.nsf/3f9398ab330dbab883256d6b0050f039/eda5d6a190cd4993032576ac00738dc8/%24FILE/1%20LEIS%20-%20REDA%C3%87%C3%83O%20ATUAL%20atualizado%20at%C3%A9%2028.02.2026.pdf2026-11-11; Read in: Complete Lei 691 arts. 32, 33 I and II items 1-33 with all notes, and 33-A; printed LC 235 arts. 21, 25 and 26 with commencement and revocation notes; neighboring amendment identities. Only the stated portions of the 10,348-line document were read. Later 2026 trigger, review, ratification and repeal acts, and the financial-branch regulations, are not certified. The earlier rate card is retained separately.

Not yet confirmed: full current ordinary ISS rate/benefit and filing/payment law for Rio Branco, Maceió, Manaus, Vitória, São Luís, Campo Grande, Belém, João Pessoa, Teresina and Florianópolis; Boa Vista complete later rate/incentive amendment chain; Recife current calendar and benefit concession; Natal separate incentive acts and current emitter implementation; Palmas amendments after the dated 2023 consolidation and current calendar; Cuiabá current payment-date regulation, implementing construction workflow and property-specific relief/valuation facts; current complete amendment chains/administrative calendars beyond the expressly read portions for other capitals; Goiânia pole implementation and taxpayer-specific entitlement; Salvador formal RENOVACENTRO admission/current implementing conditions and unresolved table-note sunsets; Aracaju original gazette/current implementing act and later amendment chain; Rio post-February2026 fiscal-recovery/benefit continuation and taxpayer-specific implementing rules; Porto Alegre amendments after the dated 2024 collection; Porto Velho's complete statutory amendment chain and taxpayer-specific current issuer; local fixed-professional annual values, property rates/valuation schedules, discounts, nonworking-day adjustments, nil-return rules and penalty/interest computations not expressly confirmed above; definitive post-LC227/2026 valuation-litigation effects and final Tema1124 merits. These remain ordinary partial coverage; no unsupported rate, deadline or arrears amount is supplied.

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