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Previously, only those making less than about 500 dollars a month were exempt.
To make up the difference in lost income, the government will increase taxes on Brazil's top earners and their dividends.
Supporters say it's common sense legislation.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is set to sign the bill, handing him a major political victory.
as he plans to run for re-election next year.
Congress is still also looking to tax new outlets, including fintech companies and betting operators.
Carrie Conn, NPR News, Rio de Janeiro.
According to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, Jonathan Obando Perez was discharged last week from a Bogota hospital.
The 34-year-old was one of two survivors of a U.S.
military strike on a suspected drug-smuggling submarine.
Federal officials in Bogota say there were no plans to launch a formal investigation against Obando as it has no evidence he committed a crime in Colombia.
President Trump had posted on social media that Obando would be detained and prosecuted in Colombia.
Officials there also made similar assurances.
The other survivor of the attack, an Ecuadorian with a criminal narcotics record in the U.S., was also released once returned to his home country.
Carrie Khan, NPR News, Rio de Janeiro.
They're stunning charges. The standout points, prosecutors say that Bolsonaro and 33 others, they said it was this vast criminal organization to keep him in power after he narrowly lost to the current president, Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva. On top of that, there was also this outline to poison Lula, kill his vice president and a Supreme Court justice who Bolsonaro has feuded with.
They're stunning charges. The standout points, prosecutors say that Bolsonaro and 33 others, they said it was this vast criminal organization to keep him in power after he narrowly lost to the current president, Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva. On top of that, there was also this outline to poison Lula, kill his vice president and a Supreme Court justice who Bolsonaro has feuded with.
They're stunning charges. The standout points, prosecutors say that Bolsonaro and 33 others, they said it was this vast criminal organization to keep him in power after he narrowly lost to the current president, Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva. On top of that, there was also this outline to poison Lula, kill his vice president and a Supreme Court justice who Bolsonaro has feuded with.