This work analyses the evolution of the tributary structure and the constitution and organisation of the Brazilian revenue system in the long period from 1889 to 2009. It aims to identify, on one hand, the functions attributed to fiscal policy and to taxation, as well as how these State`s...

This paper tries to contribute to the current discussion on sharing rules of royalties in Brazil from theoretical and empirical reflections about fiscal federalism and from a comparative analysis of the experiences of oil producing countries that, as our example, organize themselves like...

Analyzing the evolution of the main revenues and expenditure government accounts, this paper describes the behavior of the public sector during the period 1890/1945. Not only because its importance in terms of the volume of resources that allocates, but also because data availability, the study...