Company: BBD
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001292814-25-001244
Chunk: 304

Company: BANK BRADESCO
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 8
Chunk 304
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 a total provisioned amount - which we believe to be adequate to cover any probable outflow of cash or other economic resources
required to settle the provision - in the amount of R$17,900 million and whose allocation was:

  43.7% in civil matters;  

  41.7% for risks related to tax and social security issues, mainly related to IRPJ and CSLL, PIS, COFINS  

  14.6% for labor claims.  

Among the remaining litigation,
where the probability of loss is considered as possible, we highlight those related to (i) tax and social security matters, which totaled
R$46,933 million as of December 31, 2024 (R$46,704 million as of December 31, 2023); and (ii) those related to civil claims which totaled
R$11,570 million as of December 31, 2024 (R$9,977 million as of December 31, 2023).

For additional information,
see Note 22 to our consolidated financial statements in “ Item 18. Financial Statements”.

8. A.30 Policy on dividend
distributions

Since 1970, we have been
distributing dividends on a monthly basis. Today we maintain an automatic system for the monthly payment of interest on shareholders’
equity.

Consistent with Brazilian
law, our Bylaws allow our Board of Executive Officers, upon approval by the Board of Directors, to make distributions in the form of interest
on shareholders’ equity instead of dividends. Payments of interest on shareholders’ equity may be included as part of any
mandatory dividends. Since July 1997, we have made monthly payments of interest on shareholders’ equity at an amount approved by
our Board of Directors before the statement of dividends at the end of each fiscal year. The amounts paid as interest on shareholders’
equity, net of income tax, are discounted from the amount of dividends declared. Pursuant to Brazilian law, a shareholder who does not
receive a dividend payment may initiate proceedings for the collection of these payments within three years following the dividends statement
date. After this period, unclaimed dividends return to the company.

Our policy relating to dividend
distributions and/or interest on shareholders’ equity is to maximize the amount of distributions, in accordance with our tax management
strategy. For additional information, see “ Item 5. A. Operating Results - 5. A.10 Overview - 5. A.