A Competência Tributária dos Estados Membros e os Conceitos de Direito Privado: uma análise sob o prisma do pacto federativo

Abstract

Analyzing the law from the paradigm of the linguistic turn, this work intends to study the possibilities of the Member State, in exercising its taxing power, changing concepts established by the private law and the possibilities of the Federal state, through the exercise of its powers to legislate about private law and about general rules of tax law, to modify the content of the rules that determine the competence of the Member State. To this end, the work uses the interpretation model proposed by Paulo de Barros Carvalho, according to which the interpreter must follow a process consisting of four phases, in which the prescriptive texts must be interpreted e contrasted with other dispositives of system. Therefore, it is believed that, to define the content of the rules that give power to tax, it is necessary to analyze the concept of federal state and the actual dimensions of the that in Brazil. In this context, it is clear that, to the federal units are effectively autonomous, it is necessary that its taxing power is preserved. Facing the crisis context of federalism in Brazil, in which the Federal State not only exercises its taxing competence in an unbalanced way, but also interferes in the competence of the others units, it is imperative to examine the possibilities of the Federal State to intervene in the taxing competence of the remaining units, as well as the possibilites of the Member State, in exercising its competence, to modify these concepts and, following this purpose, this work tries to place the legal statements against the dictates of Federalism in Brazil