A evolução do modelo tributação ICMS, fator de estímulo a guerra fiscal : uma abordagem descritiva e empírica

Abstract

The ICMS is the tax the largest revenue in Brazil, besides being the main source of revenue for states. For these reasons, it gets from Constitution 1988 more extensive treatment. The constitutional powers for the States legislate operations movement of goods allowed them to have greater degree of legislative and financial autonomy, however, has led to economic and institutional distortions due to the national vocation of a tax imposed by the state. The first objective is to analyze the formation of the ICMS tax model, constructed through a historical institutional distortion process accumulated along the years. In this context, presents two different scenarios of revenue sharing when on the State: the recipient is or not a taxpayer. Moreover, they are presented descriptively disturbances arising from the weakening and tensions in the political and economic relations between states of the fiscal war , to break with the constitutional rules. Concomitantly, there remains the serious problem of region inequalities. As a consequence, the main goal of this dissertation refers to the examinations of the measures that are shaping the states to try to solve the possible institutional failures of the model, beyond the proposition of alternative models proposed to sharing resulting from operations of interstate movement of goods. In this context, it takes into account the state legislative autonomy and the preservation of neutrality and slowdown in economic phenomenon of fiscal war . The results described in detail form unanticipated problems in the institutional environment, when the construction of the 1988 Constitution, as evidenced by this dissertation.