The paper seeks to analyze the distribution of real estate assets among Brazilian families and IPTU-property tax-their main form of taxation. The text points out that real estate property usufruct is more concentrated than family income itself, despite the fact that IPTU boasts a dubious...

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 thesis is dedicated to the study of inductive environmental tax norms, one of the instruments with increasing propagation used for nature preservation. These norms are defined in this work as any tax norm that within its environmental policy guidance is able to induce certain behaviour of...