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General partnership

Sociedade em Nome Coletivo SNCBrazil

What it takes to form, own and run a general partnership in Brazil, and how its profit is taxed. Each figure links to the page it was read from.

This company type

At a glance

Owners' liability
Unlimited: the owners answer with their own assets
Officialgov.brRead 10 Oct 2026
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os sócios respondem ilimitadamente pelas obrigações da sociedade
Owners
Individuals only
Officialplanalto.gov.brRead 10 Oct 2026
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Somente pessoas físicas podem tomar parte na sociedade em nome coletivo, respondendo todos os sócios, solidária e ilimitadamente, pelas obrigações sociais.
Directors
Individuals only
Officialplanalto.gov.brRead 10 Oct 2026
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Somente pessoas físicas podem tomar parte na sociedade em nome coletivo, respondendo todos os sócios, solidária e ilimitadamente, pelas obrigações sociais.
Minimum capital
None
Officialplanalto.gov.brRead 25 Oct 2026
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Art. 1.040. A sociedade em nome coletivo se rege pelas normas deste Capítulo e, no que seja omisso, pelas do Capítulo antecedente.
Formation fee
Not stated

The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.

Tax on profit
Varies · 10–15%2 special regimes may apply
Officialplanalto.gov.brRead 10 Oct 2026
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Art. 3º A alíquota do imposto de renda das pessoas jurídicas é de quinze por cento.
Notary needed: NoResident director needed: No

Form it

Who registers it

Registry
Formed without visiting
Not stated

The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.

Formed online
Not stated

The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.

What it takes to form

A notary
Not required
A resident director
Not required
Paying up the capital
Not in our records

Own it

Who may own and run it

Directors
Individuals only
Official planalto.gov.br read 10 Oct 2026
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Somente pessoas físicas podem tomar parte na sociedade em nome coletivo, respondendo todos os sócios, solidária e ilimitadamente, pelas obrigações sociais.
Shareholders
Individuals only
Official planalto.gov.br read 10 Oct 2026
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Somente pessoas físicas podem tomar parte na sociedade em nome coletivo, respondendo todos os sócios, solidária e ilimitadamente, pelas obrigações sociais.
Members
Not stated

The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.

A local company secretary
Not required
Official planalto.gov.br read 16 Oct 2026
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A administração da sociedade compete exclusivamente a sócios, sendo o uso da firma, nos limites do contrato, privativo dos que tenham os necessários poderes.
A local registered agent
Not stated

The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.

Each year, at the registry

Not in our records Annual registry fee, Accounts on the public record, Audit for a small company, Audit: none of these is in our records for the SNC.

Important dates

When each obligation falls due, as the authority states it.

Not in our records No dates for the SNC are in our records.

What is public

Not in our records What the register shows the public is not in our records for the SNC.

Tax

Tax on profit

How this company type is taxed, which can differ from its place’s headline rate.

Varies · 10–15%+2 regimes

Pessoa jurídica: imposto de renda de 15% sobre a base de cálculo; adicional de 10% sobre a parcela que exceder R$ 20.000,00 por mês do período de apuração (lucro presumido, Receita Federal).

Official planalto.gov.br read 10 Oct 2026
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Art. 3º A alíquota do imposto de renda das pessoas jurídicas é de quinze por cento.

Special regimes that may apply

Whether a company qualifies depends on its activity and conditions set in each statute.

CFC rules in Brazil
Not in our records

Close it

Closing it

The other end, which most guides leave out.

Route
Dissolution by the causes in Código Civil art. 1.033 (including unanimous consent of the members, or an absolute-majority resolution where the term is open) and, for a business company, bankruptcy (art. 1.044); the administrators then arrange for a liquidator (art. 1.036).
Official planalto.gov.br read 25 Oct 2026
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A sociedade se dissolve de pleno direito por qualquer das causas enumeradas no art. 1.033 e, se empresária, também pela declaração da falência.
Statutory fee
Not in our records

Every business in Brazil

VAT

The tax
Consumption taxes: ICMS (state), ISS (municipal), and the new CBS/IBS dual VAT
Official planalto.gov.br read 22 Oct 2026
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Art. 346. Em relação aos fatos geradores ocorridos de 1º de janeiro a 31 de dezembro de 2026, a CBS será cobrada mediante aplicação da alíquota de 0,9% (nove décimos por cento).
Standard rate
Not in our records

No single standard rate is published: ICMS is set by each state and ISS by each municipality, and from 2026 the federal CBS is charged at a test rate of 0.9% while the new IBS is introduced. The full dual-VAT rates apply from 2033.

Other rates
Not stated
Registration threshold
Not in our records
Voluntary registration
Yes

Persons outside the regular IBS/CBS regime by default (unincorporated entities such as the condomínio edilício, consórcio and sociedade em conta de participação, the nanoempreendedor, rural producers and independent cargo carriers) may opt into it (LC 214 art. 26 §1).

Official planalto.gov.br read 25 Oct 2026
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Poderão optar pelo regime regular do IBS e da CBS, observado o disposto no § 6º do art. 41 desta Lei Complementar:
A foreign company
See the note

A company domiciled outside Brazil registers with the CNPJ only in the cases the Receita Federal lists — holding Brazilian real estate, vehicles, vessels or aircraft or a bank account, or entering certain contracts and investments. No turnover threshold is stated, and no page read covers a representative or the consumption-tax filing duty.

Official gov.br read 22 Oct 2026
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Pessoas jurídicas domiciliadas no exterior que estão obrigadas à inscrição no CNPJ: I - Aquelas que possuem no Brasil: a) imóveis;
Returns filed
Monthly
Official planalto.gov.br read 25 Oct 2026
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O período de apuração do IBS e da CBS será mensal.
Tax authority
Registration page read 2026-10-22

Payment and banking services

3 services name Brazil on their own list: Paysera, Airwallex, Stripe. Each provider, and what a listing means.

Reference

Its name and code

Kind
General partnership
Derived our grouping, the same words in every country
Name in law
Sociedade em Nome Coletivo (SNC)
ISO 20275 code
529B