Teoria e prática da substituição tributária progressiva no ICMS : uma análise do instituto após os julgamentos do recurso extraordinário nº 213396/SP e da ADIn nº1851-4/AL.

Abstract

This present work analyses one of the most relevant and debated themes of tributary law nowadays, the progressive tributary substitution institute applied to the tax over merchandise circulation and services of interstate and intercity transportation as well as over communication ICMS - , and analyses it with the clear objective of offering a dogmatic description of the institute, compatible with constitutional principles and able to serve as a guide to its practical application. For this it starts by fixing the theoretical tools to be used in the referred analyses, so from this describe dogmatically the respective normative bundle (after exposing a dialectic critics of other theories about the subject), specially the 7th paragraph of article 150 of the Federal Constitution (which contains two rules, the first one authoritative of the use of absolute presumptions and the second one containing a resolutive of efficacy legal condition), opposing this exegesis to the constitutional principles of legality, juridical security, isonomy, contributive capacity, workability, non-cumulating and confiscation impediment, seeking harmonizing interpretations able to preserve the maximum effectiveness of the institute without the sacrifice of the ruling efficacy of the quoted above principles, specially of those which contain fundamental rights of the tax-payer or contain guarantees of these rights. Having done this we go to the study of the main alterations provoked in the origin-rule of tributary incidence by this special collecting technique, this in relation to the normal pattern, without progressive substitution, retaining specially in the changes in relation to the passive subjective and to the calculus base, and in the final chapter present the conclusions of this study. It is worth mentioning that all work takes jurisprudence about the theme, specially from the Superior Tribunals, as an object of research (besides the ruling bundle), in an analyses really focused to practice, which aims to contribute to the construction of a pattern which is able to Express a balance point between the objective of combating illegal withholdment and the rights and guarantees of the tax-payers.