In the next year we plan to sell our vacation home in Recife. Purchased in 2005, it has tripled in value, so we will have capital gains. Our questions: Do we pay capital gains in Brazil or in the United States? How do we get the money back to the United States? And finally, does anyone know a shipping company we can use to bring the contents of our Brazilian home back to the United States? Doing all this makes us sad, but the crime rate in Recife is simply too awful.