Taxation over consumption: over taxing the low-income tax payers

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the taxation over consumption and the influence that it represents in the income of the Brazilian population, demonstrating how our tributary system is regressive. After a brief analysis of tax species that rest upon over the consumption, we will be addressing our taxation system from the viewpoint of ability to pay, as a limiter principle of the power to tax and guarantor of so-called existential minimum. Shortly thereafter, we will work with the relationship of these taxes with the income of our population. Finally, it will be proposed alternatives to the current model, with the intention to stimulate the discussion about the need to consider a tax reform that enable us to achieve a bigger social justice.

Taxation over Consumption; Ability to Pay; Tax Justice