On May 22, 2014, Brazil's eSocial Steering Committee
announced that the System of Digital Bookkeeping of Fiscal/Tax,
Social Security and Labor Obligations ("eSocial") will be
implemented as of the date of the publication of the final version
of the eSocial Orientation Manual. To date, the Committee has
published the interim version 1.1 of the Manual (available here in Portuguese)
and a new version is expected to be released soon. The
publication date of the final version is still uncertain.
eSocial is a Brazilian federal government project to unify the
transmission of employment- and work-related data to various
federal government institutions, including Caixa Economica Federal
(the Brazil government bank that manages the Employee Savings Fund
("FGTS") system); Social Security Institute
("INSS"); Social Security Ministry ("MPS");
Labor and Employment Ministry ("MTE"); and Internal
Revenue Services ("RFB"). Once implemented, eSocial
will impact all individuals and
