The Brazilian Internal Revenue Service will require, from January 1, 2020, that all international orders and shipments have the identification of the CPF/CNPJ/Recipient Passport Number to have its customs clearance started. The lack of such information may result in a ban on the entry of the order and its return abroad or destruction, in cases where the return is not possible.
The Tax ID number is known as CPF (format: 000.000.000-00) for natural persons and CNPJ (format: 00.000.000/0000-00) for legal entities.
In order to mitigate the impacts of this requirement and minimize the number of items returned, we have updated our process so that Vitacost will directly collect this number starting on June 6, 2024 during checkout in the following format for Tax ID number known as CPF (format: 00000000000) so that the CPF number can be passed to the applicable carrier selected for electronic submission to customs in addition to being available on the package label itself for use by customs in the assessment of any duties/taxes due on shipment to be remitted by the package recipient.
Any questions on this process can be sent via email to internationalreturn@vitacost.com