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Advancement of the pre-filled declaration accelerates the digitalization of Income Tax and indicates a gradual change in the way of reporting to the tax authority, with more automatic data, less manual filling, and new tools under development for variable income, health, and investment funds.
The Federal Revenue Service wants to transform the Income Tax declaration into an increasingly automatic procedure, focused on verifying the information already gathered by the State itself.
On April 1, 2026, the date of the official announcement, 60.9% of the approximately 6.7 million taxpayers who had already submitted their declaration used the pre-filled mode, while the submission deadline remained open until May 29, 2026.
According to the Minister of Finance, Dario Durigan, simplifying the filling process will be among the priorities of the Revenue Service in the coming years.
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The proposal is to increase the quantity and quality of data automatically incorporated, reducing the need for manual typing and leaving the taxpayer with the task of reviewing, confirming, or correcting the information before submission.
In the assessment of the special secretary of the Federal Revenue Service, Robinson Barreirinhas, the trend is for the declaration to cease being a form filled out from scratch to progressively become a validation process.
The logic is simple: the greater the consistency of official databases and the information sent by third parties, the less obligation the citizen will have to repeat to the tax authority data that is already available.
Pre-filled declaration gains space in Income Tax
The expansion of the pre-filled declaration relies on an infrastructure that gathers information about income, deductions, assets, rights, debts, and real burdens.
In practice, this integration reduces typing errors, decreases the risk of inconsistencies, and helps avoid unnecessary withholdings in fine mesh, although the final verification remains the responsibility of the taxpayer.
This model is available for those who have a gov.br account at silver or gold levels.
The data reaches the Revenue Service through employers, financial institutions, notaries, real estate agencies, health operators, and other informants required to report to the tax authority, which explains why the tax administration insists on the need to review each field before the final transmission.
Still, full automation has no set date to reach all profiles of filers.
The Revenue Service itself acknowledges that there are more complex situations, such as income received abroad, where obtaining and standardizing information depends on additional data-sharing flows and, in some cases, bilateral agreements.
Automatic declaration begins to apply to simpler cases
Although fully automated filling is not yet a widespread reality, the Revenue Service has already taken a concrete step in cases considered simpler.
In 2026, about 4 million taxpayers who were not required to submit a declaration in 2025 but had tax withheld at source and were entitled to a refund for events occurring in 2024, began to be included in an automatic declaration model.
This group includes low-income workers who, at some point, had Income Tax withheld but did not file a declaration because they did not meet the mandatory criteria.
According to the Revenue Service, payment will be made in a specific batch starting July 15, 2026, based on a declaration automatically prepared using information already existing in official systems.
The initiative, dubbed by the government as “Income Tax cashback”, is expected to return around R$ 500 million.
The estimated average amount per taxpayer is R$ 125, which can reach R$ 1,000 in some cases, provided the beneficiary has a regular CPF, low fiscal risk, and a Pix key linked to their CPF, in addition to the possibility of later rectifying or even canceling the generated declaration.
Federal Revenue Service prepares changes in variable income, health, and funds
In addition to expanding the pre-filled declaration, the Revenue Service reported that it is developing new enhancements with a direct impact on the experience of those filing.
Among the projects mentioned are the advancement of Revar, aimed at supporting the calculation of tax on variable income, strengthening Receita Saúde, related to the registration of medical expenses, and adjustments in the treatment of data on investment funds.
Another area of work involves the data collection systems used by companies and individuals required to provide information to the tax authority.
The intention is to make the submission of records by payers, service providers, health plans, and other entities simpler and more standardized, raising the quality of the databases that later feed the individual taxpayer’s declaration.
The strategy follows a broader guideline from the Federal Revenue Service, which aims to integrate databases, anticipate inconsistencies, and reduce repetitive accessory obligations.
In this design, the focus shifts from merely receiving filled forms to also guiding, cross-referencing information more accurately, and limiting the rework imposed on the citizen.
Technological evolution of the IRPF shapes the current model
The current bet on automation did not arise suddenly.
The computerization of Income Tax began in 1991, when the Revenue Service established the program for filling out the declaration on a computer, introducing the so-called magnetic medium as an alternative to traditional paper forms.
Just a few years later, in 1997, the Receitanet system marked the digital transmission of declarations and consolidated an operational turnaround that would change the relationship between the taxpayer and the tax authority.
During the same phase, the delivery in magnetic medium began to surpass the volume of paper declarations, signaling the rapid digitalization of the procedure.
In 2004, the IRPF program began to have filling and submission compatible with all operating systems, which expanded the reach of the tool.
The pre-filled declaration was launched in 2014 for users with a digital certificate and later gained scale with the opening of access to silver and gold gov.br accounts, a process formalized in the following years.
The current movement, therefore, deepens a trajectory that began decades ago: less paper, less manual typing, and more data integration.
The difference now is the declared ambition of the Revenue Service to bring the taxpayer’s experience closer to a model where the system anticipates almost everything, while the citizen only reviews, confirms, and, when necessary, corrects what has already been reported by the official databases.
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