CPF number

Common card · No. 214661

The CPF number (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˌsepeˈɛfi]; short for Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas, 'Physical Persons Register') is the Brazilian individual taxpayer register since its creation in 1965. A CPF number is individually assigned by the Brazilian Federal Revenue to each physical person, whether Brazilian or resident alien who, directly or indirectly, pays taxes in Brazil. It is an 11‑digit number in the format xxx.xxx.xxx-xx, where the last 2 numbers are check digits, generated through an arithmetic operation on the first nine digits. By May 2020, a digital version of the document was available for Android and iOS with the app CPF Digital. In June 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, an audit made by the Tribunal de Contas da União (Portuguese for 'Federal Court of Accounts'; TCU) revealed that there were at least 12.5 million more CPFs than the total population. Auditors revealed that in 3.3 million valid entries there was evidence that the individual was already dead. The 2020 audit...

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