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TAXES PAYABLE (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
TAXES PAYABLE |
Schedule of taxes payable |
|  | 2017 |  | 2016 |
Payroll charges |  | 75,752 |  | 89,763 |
ICMS (state VAT) |  | 37,444 |  | 43,915 |
COFINS (tax on revenue) |  | 5,411 |  | 8,470 |
IPI (federal VAT) |  | 17,305 |  | 13,864 |
IVA (value-added tax) and others |  | 148,189 |  | 185,178 |
|  | 284,101 |  | 341,190 |

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