Judge Reaffirms Denial of Income-Tax Exemption Sought by Marcelo Bretas

Overview

• Federal Judge Bianca Stamato Fernandes kept in place her February 2 ruling that denied Bretas an income-tax exemption claimed on grounds of burnout, rejecting his March 10 bid to revisit the decision.
• The court found the medical record transient and insufficient, noting that the only statements came from Bretas’s private psychologist and that there were no attestations from the Judiciary’s occupational health service.
• The decision stressed that Brazilian law requires proof that work triggered or aggravated the illness, a causal link the court said was not demonstrated in this case.
• The ruling treated Bretas’s Instagram-described roles as content producer, adviser and compliance consultant as a notorious fact inconsistent with an incapacitating condition.
• The judge also wrote that the report tied his distress to dissatisfaction with the CNJ’s compulsory retirement in June 2025, and she dismissed his claim of denied access to TRF-2 medical-licensing records as unfounded.