Do you know where the richest people in Brazil live? A study carried out by FGV Social, based on data from the Individual Income Tax, came to this conclusion. The information is unpublished in Brazil until then.
The study also aims to study income inequality in Brazil. In addition, an attempt was made to understand how the pandemic affected income distribution in recent years.
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Another objective of the study was to map the income flows of the richest in the country. In this way, one can think of more precise reforms regarding the policies of income taxes and heritage.
According to research data from FGV Social, Brasilia this is where the richest people in Brazil are. Soon after, there is the state of São Pauloand, just below, the status of the Rio de Janeiro.
The state where the poorest people are, according to the data obtained from the Income Tax, is in
The study concluded that in Brasilia there is a lot of concentration of income. For example, in Lago Sul, an upscale neighborhood in the capital of Brazil, it was noted that there is a per capita income of R$ 23.2 thousand. This is three times more than the average of the richest municipality in Brazil: Nova Lima (MG), with R$ 8.8 thousand.
One of the conclusions of the Wealth Map is that inequality in Brazil is greater than expected. FGV Social combined the Income Tax data with the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD).
What was seen was a distribution of income below the appropriate level, even with the Emergency Aid distributed by the federal government in the most critical years of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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