Br Carn Monthly Income Tax Rental Income

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name: br-carn-monthly-income-tax-rental-income
description: "How a Brazilian resident individual who receives rent from another individual calculates, reports and pays the mandatory monthly income tax (carnê-leão), for accountants and advisers preparing that client's monthly DARF and annual return."
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  jurisdiction: "BR"
  tax_year: "2026"
  last_updated: "2026-09-03"
---

# Carnê-leão monthly income tax on rental income received by an individual in Brazil

## Carnê-leão monthly income tax on rental income received by an individual in Brazil

Carnê-leão is the mandatory monthly self-assessment of personal income tax. 
The Receita Federal describes it as the monthly income tax on income of an individual resident in Brazil received from another individual or from abroad, and the tax must be paid by the last business day of the month following receipt of the income.
 For a landlord, this means each month in which rent is received from an individual tenant is its own assessment period, with its own DARF. 
Income already taxed at source (salaries, for example) does not enter the carnê-leão calculation.
 Figures are for tax year 2026.

## Who this is for

This Guide is for a natural person resident in Brazil who receives rent from an individual tenant. 
The Receita Federal states that carnê-leão is the taxation of personal income tax in the form of mandatory monthly collection by the individual taxpayer resident in Brazil who receives income from another individual or from abroad.

It covers the common variants the official pages address expressly: 
income from subletting received from an individual, less the rent paid to the owner of the sublet property
; 
rent received from an individual where the let property belongs to more than one person in condominium, in the proportion falling to each under the contract, and rent from jointly owned property, taxed 50% in the name of each spouse or, optionally, in full in the name of one of them
; and 
rent received by a usufructuary from an individual, provided the public deed of usufruct is entered in the property register, failing which the rent is subject to carnê-leão in the hands of the owner
.

It does not cover rent paid by a company. 
Rent received from an individual, even where an estate agency administers the letting, is declared as income received from an individual through the Carnê-Leão web; only where the property is let to a company is the income declared as income received from a legal entity.

## Rates, thresholds and deadlines

### Monthly progressive table figures

**Monthly progressive table figures**  _(https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/tabelas/exemplos-de-aplicacao-da-lei-15-191-2025)_

| What | Value | Note |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Source | all figures below | https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/tabelas/exemplos-de-aplicacao-da-lei-15-191-2025 |
| Upper limit of the 0% band of the monthly progressive table | R$ 2.428,80 | the page computes the simplified discount as "25% de R$ 2.428,80 = R$ 607,20" |
| Monthly simplified discount (replaces all legal deductions) | R$ 607,20 | stated as 25% of the maximum limit of the monthly progressive table |
| 3rd band of the monthly table | 15%, parcela a deduzir R$ 394,16 | "3ª faixa da tabela, com alíquota de 15% (e parcela a deduzir de R$ 394,16)" |
| 4th band of the monthly table | 22,5%, parcela a deduzir R$ 675,49 | "4ª faixa da tabela, com alíquota de 22,5% (e parcela a deduzir de R$675,49)" |
| 5th band of the monthly table | 27,5%, parcela a deduzir R$ 908,73 | "5ª faixa da tabela, com alíquota de 27,5% (e parcela a deduzir de R$ 908,73)" |

### Monthly progressive table figures

The band boundaries between the second, third, fourth and fifth bands are set out on the Receita Federal's own 2026 table page and on the page cited above; they are not reproduced here because they were not read in full, and they must be read on the linked pages before this Guide is approved.

### Monthly and annual deduction limits, 2026

**Monthly and annual deduction limits, 2026**  _(https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/tabelas/2026)_

| What | Value | Note |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Source | all figures below | https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/tabelas/2026 |
| Monthly deduction per dependant | R$ 189,59 | "Dedução mensal por dependente: R$ 189,59" , stated as applying from January 2026 |
| Monthly limit of the simplified discount | R$ 607,20 | "Limite mensal de desconto simplificado: R$ 607,20" |
| Pension income exempt for persons over 65 | R$ 1.903,98 | "Rendimentos previdenciários isentos para maiores de 65 anos: R$ 1.903,98" |
| Annual deduction per dependant | R$ 2.275,08 | stated for exercício 2027 (ano-calendário 2026) |
| Annual limit for education expenses | R$ 3.561,50 | stated for exercício 2027 (ano-calendário 2026) |
| Annual limit of the simplified discount | R$ 17.640,00 | stated for exercício 2027 (ano-calendário 2026) |

### Reduction of the tax from 1 January 2026

**Reduction of the tax from 1 January 2026**  _(https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/noticias/2025/dezembro/receita-federal-orienta-fontes-pagadoras-e-contribuintes-a-calcular-a-reducao-do-imposto-de-renda-a-partir-de-1o-de-janeiro-de-2026)_

| What | Value | Note |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Source | all figures below | https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/noticias/2025/dezembro/receita-federal-orienta-fontes-pagadoras-e-contribuintes-a-calcular-a-reducao-do-imposto-de-renda-a-partir-de-1o-de-janeiro-de-2026 |
| Monthly income up to which no IRPF is due from January 2026 | R$ 5.000,00 | the page states that from January 2026 taxpayers with monthly income of up to R$ 5.000,00 stop paying IRPF |
| Maximum monthly reduction | R$ 312,89 | the widening of the 0% band is granted by a mechanism reducing monthly IRPF by up to this amount, limited to the tax determined under the monthly progressive table |
| Monthly income above which the ordinary table applies in full | R$ 7.350 | "Para rendas mensais acima de R$ 7.350, permanece a cobrança normal de acordo com a tabela progressiva vigente (7,5%, 15%, 22,5%, 27,5%)" |
| Worked reduction for monthly income of R$ 6.000,00 | R$ 978,62 - (0,133145 x 6000) = R$ 179,75 | the page's own example, applied to a base of R$ 5.392,80 after the simplified discount |
| Annual taxable income not taxed from January 2026 | R$ 60.000,00 | "A partir de janeiro de 2026, passam a não serem tributados pelo IRPF anual os contribuintes com renda tributável anual de até R$ 60.000,00" |

### Deadline, DARF and late payment

**Deadline, DARF and late payment**  _(https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/orientacao-tributaria/declaracoes-e-demonstrativos/dirpf/carne-leao)_

| What | Value | Note |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Source | all figures below | https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/orientacao-tributaria/declaracoes-e-demonstrativos/dirpf/carne-leao |
| Payment deadline | last business day of the month following receipt | the income subject to carnê-leão obliges the beneficiary to assess and pay the tax by the last business day of the month following receipt |
| DARF field 04 – código da receita | 0190 | the program enters code 0190 in field 04 of the DARF |
| DARF field 05 – número de referência | not completed | neither the program nor the taxpayer completes this field |
| Minimum amount that may be collected | R$ 10,00 | collection of taxes administered by the RFB whose total is below R$ 10,00 is prohibited; if the carnê-leão is below R$ 10,00 the DARF is not printed and the amount is added automatically to the following month's tax |
| Late payment penalty (DARF field 08) | 0,33% per day of delay, limited to 20% | running from the first business day after the due date |
| Late payment interest (DARF field 09) | Selic accumulated monthly from the month after the due date, plus 1% in the month of payment | stated as the Selic reference rate for federal securities |

### Isolated penalty for failure to pay

**Isolated penalty for failure to pay**  _(https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/acesso-a-informacao/acoes-e-programas/conformidade-tributaria/cartorios/visao-integral-do-segmento/orientacoes-tributarias-de-interesse-do-segmento-cartorios/carne2013leao-obrigatoriedade)_

| What | Value | Note |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Source | all figures below | https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/acesso-a-informacao/acoes-e-programas/conformidade-tributaria/cartorios/visao-integral-do-segmento/orientacoes-tributarias-de-interesse-do-segmento-cartorios/carne2013leao-obrigatoriedade |
| Isolated penalty for failure to pay carnê-leão | 50% of the monthly payment | stated under art. 44, II, "a" of Lei nº 9.430/1996 as a penalty of 50% on the amount of the monthly payment for failure to collect the carnê-leão |

## The method, step by step

- **Step 1 – Identify the payer of the rent** — Identify the payer of the rent, because it decides whether carnê-leão applies at all. Rent received from an individual, including where an estate agency administers the letting, goes through the Carnê-Leão web; rent from a property let to a company is income received from a legal entity.  _([Recebo Aluguéis de uma Imobiliária](https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/malha-fiscal/antecipacao/rendimentos-recebidos-de-empresa/recebo-alugueis-de-uma-imobiliaria))_
- **Step 2 – Fix the date of receipt for each month** — Fix the date of receipt for each month. Receipt means the delivery of funds to the beneficiary, including by deposit in a financial institution in their name, and for rent the date of payment for tax incidence purposes is the date on which the tenant pays the rent to the owner of the property or to the administrator, even if the administrator fails to inform the landlord of the receipt or misappropriates it.  _([Orientações Gerais Carnê-Leão](https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/orientacao-tributaria/declaracoes-e-demonstrativos/dirpf/carne-leao))_
- **Step 3 – Add to the month's rent anything treated as rent** — Add to the month's rent anything the official page treats as rent. Expenses on improvements made by an individual tenant are subject to carnê-leão together with the rent received in the month, where the lease permits those expenses to be set against the rent due.  _([Orientações Gerais Carnê-Leão](https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/orientacao-tributaria/declaracoes-e-demonstrativos/dirpf/carne-leao))_
- **Step 4 – Apply the exclusions specific to rent** — Apply the exclusions specific to rent. From the rent received there may be deducted, where the charge fell exclusively on the landlord, amounts relating to taxes, fees and emoluments levied on the property that produces the income, among the further items the page lists; the gross rent is entered and the total of those amounts is entered in the field "Valor Exclusão/Dedução". The remaining items on that list were not read in full here and must be read on the page before approval.  _([Rendimentos sujeitos ao carnê-leão](https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/pagamento/carne-leao/rendimentos))_
- **Step 5 – Apply the general monthly deductions** — Apply the general monthly deductions. Provided they have not been used as a deduction against income subject to withholding at source, alimony paid under family law by judicial decision, including provisional maintenance, under a court-approved agreement or a public deed under art. 733 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and expenses recorded in the livro Caixa are admitted; the livro Caixa may be used only by the self-employed worker, auctioneer and holder of notarial and registry services. The livro Caixa cannot be used for rental and transport income.  _([Deduções possíveis no carnê-leão](https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/pagamento/carne-leao/deducoes))_
- **Step 6 – Calculate the tax** — Calculate the tax. For the calculation of the tax, the program applies the monthly progressive table for the relevant calendar year to the total income received in the month from individuals and from abroad, after subtracting the deductions relating to livro Caixa, dependants, official social security and alimony, then apply the reduction in the reduction table above.  _([Orientações Gerais Carnê-Leão](https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/orientacao-tributaria/declaracoes-e-demonstrativos/dirpf/carne-leao); [Exemplos de Aplicação da Lei 15.270/2025](https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/tabelas/exemplos-de-aplicacao-da-lei-15-191-2025))_
- **Step 7 – Record the month in the Carnê-Leão web** — Record the month in the Carnê-Leão web. The Demonstrativo de Apuração is the system's opening screen, from which the taxpayer can view the detail, download or print the livro caixa and the demonstrativo itself, and generate the DARF for payment of the tax due, and configuration data must be given per calendar year, including whether the taxpayer authorises the import of the Carnê-Leão data into another person's income tax return.  _([Manual do Carnê-Leão](https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/pagamento/carne-leao/manual); [Apurar carnê-leão](https://www.gov.br/pt-br/servicos/apurar-carne-leao))_
- **Step 8 – Generate and pay the DARF** — Generate and pay the DARF by the deadline in the deadlines table, using the código da receita in that table; the Total field is the sum of fields 07, 08 and 09, and if the carnê-leão is below R$ 10,00 the DARF is not generated and the amount is added automatically to the following month's tax.  _([Como pagar o carnê-leão](https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/pagamento/carne-leao/pagar))_
- **Step 9 – Carry the year into the annual return** — Carry the year into the annual return. If the taxpayer uses the Carnê-Leão, the information is recovered when the return begins to be completed.  _([Despesas dedutíveis – Manual MIR](https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/preenchimento/manual-mir/pagamentos-ou-doacoes/despesas-dedutiveis))_

## Ask the client first

- Who pays the rent each month: an individual tenant, or a company? The answer decides whether this Guide applies at all, per the first step above.
- If an estate agency collects the rent, on what date did the tenant pay the agency, and did the agency remit it? The date of receipt rule in step 2 turns on the tenant's payment date, not the remittance date.
- Who bore each charge on the property — the landlord or the tenant — and is there documentary proof? Only charges borne exclusively by the landlord fall within the exclusion in step 4.
- Is the property owned by one person, by spouses, in condominium, or subject to a registered usufruct? Each of these changes who declares what share, as set out under "Who this is for".
- Is the client subletting, and how much rent is paid onward to the owner? Sublet income is assessed net of that rent.
- Does the client have dependants, official social security contributions or court-ordered alimony not already used against withheld income, and would the monthly simplified discount be more favourable?

## When to refuse or refer

- Rent received from a company, or from a company tenant through an agency, which is taxed at source and not through carnê-leão.
- Rent received by a non-resident, or by a landlord who ceased to be resident in Brazil during the year; the pages relied on here address the resident individual.
- Rent received from abroad, or where foreign tax is to be offset; 
the Carnê-Leão has a separate mechanism for offsetting tax paid abroad with monthly limits and carry-forward of excess
, which this Guide does not work through.
- Letting activity carried on in a way that equates the taxpayer to a legal entity, or letting through a company the client owns.
- Months already in arrears, or a Receita Federal malha fiscal notice or assessment, where the isolated penalty in the table above and interest calculations are in issue.
- The Imposto de Renda da Pessoa Física Mínimo for high incomes, and any interaction between it and rental income.
- Any figure not shown in the tables above, including the band boundaries of the monthly progressive table, which must be read on the linked Receita Federal pages.

## Sources

- https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/tabelas/exemplos-de-aplicacao-da-lei-15-191-2025 (monthly progressive table figures)
- https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/tabelas/2026 (monthly and annual deduction limits, 2026)
- https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/noticias/2025/dezembro/receita-federal-orienta-fontes-pagadoras-e-contribuintes-a-calcular-a-reducao-do-imposto-de-renda-a-partir-de-1o-de-janeiro-de-2026 (reduction of the tax from 1 January 2026)
- https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/orientacao-tributaria/declaracoes-e-demonstrativos/dirpf/carne-leao (deadline, DARF and late payment)
- https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/acesso-a-informacao/acoes-e-programas/conformidade-tributaria/cartorios/visao-integral-do-segmento/orientacoes-tributarias-de-interesse-do-segmento-cartorios/carne2013leao-obrigatoriedade (isolated penalty for failure to pay)
- https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/pagamento/carne-leao (definition and scope)
- https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/pagamento/carne-leao/rendimentos (rent exclusions and date of receipt)
- https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/pagamento/carne-leao/deducoes (deductions and livro Caixa restriction)
- https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/pagamento/carne-leao/pagar (DARF fields and payment)
- https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/pagamento/carne-leao/manual (Carnê-Leão web operation)
- https://www.gov.br/pt-br/servicos/apurar-carne-leao (service page)
- https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/malha-fiscal/antecipacao/rendimentos-recebidos-de-empresa/recebo-alugueis-de-uma-imobiliaria (rent collected by an estate agency)
- https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/meu-imposto-de-renda/preenchimento/manual-mir/pagamentos-ou-doacoes/despesas-dedutiveis (import into the annual return)

Drafted by OpenAccountants. Not yet reviewed or approved by a named accountant.

## Today's figures and who stands behind this skill

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