Informal economy represents 18% of GDP in Brazil

Heavy taxes and a lot of bureaucracy. Those are the thoughts that came to my mind when I saw the latest FGV  estimate; Brazil’s informal economy is R$578bn, or the equivalent to Argentina’s total GDP. The good news is that although sizeable, the statistic reveals a more formalized economy than in 2003, when 23% of GDP  was estimated to be informal.

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