Tributação indireta e cidadania fiscal: uma análise dos mecanismos de conscientização para mitigação da anestesia fiscal

Abstract

Indirect taxation as an obstacle to an effective fiscal citizenship and the mechanisms for mitigating the tax unconsciousness are the focus of this paper. It discusses how important the access to information is in order to achieve an effective fiscal citizenship, analyzing in which way the national tax burden knowledge, especially what concerns to indirect taxes, can contribute to citizenship and in order to a greater control of public spending, through a culture of democratic participation and supervising of the taxation resources. It also shows the statute n. 12.741/12, which provides a discrimination of the taxes levied on the consumption of products and services, analyzing its importance and highlighting its enforcement. The work also presents other mechanisms and policies, such as fiscal education programs, sites and applications, which aim to mitigate the tax unconsciousness. How indirect taxes can be an obstacle to taxpayers access to justice is also highlighted. Furthermore, it was concluded that, despite the importance of an exercise of fiscal citizenship, its effectiveness is possible only with the access to information about the tax burden by the population, which is very difficult because of the indirect taxation, as most of times it occurs in a covered way in consumption operations. This paper consists in a qualitative, exploratory and pure work, and, what concerns to the data, a bibliographic, documentary and field research.