Brazil’s Supreme Court clarifies deadline for electricity-bill reimbursements
The court said the statutory clock begins when each distributor actually receives a tax refund or obtains definitive approval to offset it, leaving ANEEL to apply the transfer through tariff proceedings.
Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court, known as the STF, has clarified the starting point for a 10-year period governing the transfer to electricity consumers of certain recovered PIS/Cofins tax amounts.In a decision on October 22, 2026, the court’s full bench partially granted a…
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