Uma contribuição ao estudo da incidência dos custos de conformidade às leis e disposições tributárias: um panorama mundial e pesquisa dos custos das companhias de capital aberto no Brasil / A contribution to the study of the incidence of compliance costs of taxation on the taxpayers. An overview of the world panorama and a research about the costs of public companies in Brazil.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2001

RESUMO

The compliance costs of taxation correspond to the costs the taxpayers incur, necessary to comply with the fiscal rules. Tax returns, information to the federal, state and local fiscal authorities, inclusions and exclusions to taxable results done by legal obligations, meeting fiscal auditing, changes in legislation, penalties and administrative and court suits, how much is the cost of resources employed by companies? It is a relevant matter which, quite surprisingly, has been studied only recently in the world and there are no researches in Brazil. In our country, until the issuance of the Fiscal Responsibility Law, the public administrators had little or no compromise with fiscal balance or budgetary control. Consequently, cash pressures were constant at all administration levels and, quite often, the solutions came as tax increases, sometimes illegal, decided in emergency situations with no attention to reduce compliance costs. The federative organization of the country and the multiplicity of state and local rules aggravate this situation. The author is convinced that Compliance Costs in Brazil can be higher than in other countries and should be reduced as much as possible. This work aims to give a panoramic vision of this matter in several countries ? especially in the United Kingdom and Australia, which have dedicated more intensively to this study ? and presents a survey made with the public companies in Brazil where we have the estimated costs by the companies and their incidence on turnover. Total costs correspond to 0,32% of turnover of the companies which answered to the survey but, in smaller companies with turnover not higher than R$ 100 million, this incidence reaches 1,66%. Calculating the incidence on the GNP of these enterprises, the percentage corresponds to 0,75% for the whole group of companies but is as high as 5,82% in the smaller companies. Assuming these percentages can be extended to the whole economy, we could say that Brazil wastes at least R$ 7,2 billion yearly but may be losing R$ 55,9 billion every year instead of allocating these resources to productive activities. In the conclusion of this work are proposed measures to reduce these costs by the rationalization of legal requirements of Fiscal Administration to taxpayers.

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custos de conformidade taxation fiscal administration custos tributários taxes tributação administração tributária impostos compliance costs of taxation

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