Brazil posts record May tax haul as one-off items lift collections
Brazil's tax take for May rose 10.69% in real terms from the same month a year earlier, reaching 266.793 billion reais ($51.32 billion), the highest May collection on record, official figures show. The revenue boost reflected an exceptional 7 billion reais in corporate income tax payments and 1 billion reais from a temporary export tax on oil and f…