A presente tese tem como objetivo analisar a modalidade de subsídio público à escola privada via mecanismo da dedução de despesas com instrução presente no IRPF (Lei nº 4.357/64), discutindo os argumentos favoráveis e contrários à sua permanência e/ou extinção, no contexto atual. Consideram-se despesas com instrução os gastos anuais referentes ao pagamento de matrículas, tanto do contribuinte quanto dos seus dependentes legais, na Educação Básica e o Ensino Superior. Durante muito tempo essa dedução foi considerada como sendo apenas um benefício tributário no campo do IRPF, sem outras implicações. Contudo, esse quadro é modificado a partir do momento em que tais benefícios passaram a ser considerados como gastos tributários (GTs). A ideia de gastos tributários trouxe à tona a problemática de que a partir do momento em que o Estado deixa de arrecadar um tributo, parcial ou integralmente, ele abre mão de uma determinada Receita Orçamentária em prol de objetivos específicos. O conjunto de benefícios integrante da função orçamentária educação indica que há uma quantia de aproximadamente 7,11 bilhões de Reais, no ano de 2012, (RFB, 2011) que se encontra, direta ou indiretamente, vinculada a instituições privadas/pagas de ensino. A dedução das despesas com instrução foi responsável pelo valor de mais três bilhões de Reais, constituindo-se no maior GT na área de Educação, originando uma série de questionamentos dentre os quais: Quando ela foi criada? De onde surgiu a ideia desta dedução? O que sua criação objetivava? Constituiu-se num assunto meramente tributário? Qual o vínculo com a educação e as políticas educacionais? Para responder a tais indagações, foi realizado um estudo detalhado sobre a dedução, constituído metodologicamente com base em pesquisa bibliográfica, pesquisa documental, análise de dados estatísticos e realização de entrevistas com especialistas na área tributária. O direito à educação e o financiamento apareceram como argumentos preponderantes: Tem-se direito à educação, o Estado não garante uma escola de qualidade (de acordo com conceitos coletivos e individuais) e por isso, este direito tem que ser garantido. Por outro lado, se o direito à educação é compreendido como fundamento de um processo abrangente, social e que se refere ao conjunto da população, tem-se que a dedução se encontra descompassada com as prerrogativas do Estado como provedor de uma educação com acesso igualitário e com qualidade minimamente padronizada (vide CAQ). Não se desconsidera a argumentação de que existam problemas relacionados às escolas públicas. Inclusive, o próprio PNE reconhece muitos desses problemas e demanda financiamento para que sejam sanados. Portanto, pontua-se a questão de se continuar financiando essas instituições privadas sob argumentos individuais ou direcionar a verba para que a educação pública supere preponderantemente os problemas elencados. Resumidamente, pode-se concluir que a dedução das despesas com instrução, apesar de ser comumente tratada como uma questão tributária, refere-se sobremaneira a questões educacionais. / The objective of this thesis is to study the modality of public subsidies to private schools through the education expenditure deduction present in IRPF (Act n. 4.357/64), by discussing the arguments in favor or against this deduction existence and/or extinction in current context. It is defined as expenditure with education: the annual expenditure regarding to the school fees, either for the tax payer or their legal dependents, in the basic and higher education. For a long time frame, this deduction has been regarded as being solely a tax benefit in the field of IRPF, without other implications. However, this reality is modified from the moment that such benefits started being regarded as tax expenditure (GTs). The idea of tax expenditure brought the discussion that from the moment the State is prevented from collecting taxes, partially or as fully, it gives up a given amount of budget revenues on behalf of some specific objectives. The overall objectives pertaining the budget function, education, shows that there is an approximate amount of 7,11 billion of Reais in 2012 (RBF, 2011) that is direct or indirectly bound to private/ or paid education provider institutions. The education deduction expenses claims the amount of three billion Reais, becoming the biggest GT in the field of education, which raises some questions, such as: When was it created? What was the source of this deduction idea? What did its creation target? Was it just a taxation issue? What is its linkage to education and education policies? To answer these questions, a detailed study on tax deduction was carried out, relying methodologically on bibliographical research, archival research, statistics data analysis and interviews with researchers on taxation issues. The right to education and the education funding are the keys theories on this study. One has the right to education, the state does not guarantee quality in education (in view of individual and collective concepts), thus one´s right has to be guaranteed. On the other hand, if the right to education is understood as the foundation of a broad and social process that is related to the whole population, it is believed that the deduction is mismatched with the State prerogatives as an guarantor of an equal access and a standardizes quality at it minimal levels education (vide CAQ). The discussion about the problems pertaining the public schools is not overlooked. PNE itself recognizes most of these problems and funding demands to address them. Therefore, the issue is whether the funding should continue to be addressed to these private institutions to address individual demands, or those funds should be addressed to public schools public education so that they overcome the problems identified. Summing up, it can be concluded that education expenditure deduction, though being commonly referred as a taxation issue, refers greatly to educational issues.

A presente tese tem como objetivo analisar a modalidade de subsídio público à escola privada via mecanismo da dedução de despesas com instrução presente no IRPF (Lei nº 4.357/64), discutindo os argumentos favoráveis e contrários à sua permanência e/ou extinção, no contexto atual. Consideram-se despesas com instrução os gastos anuais referentes ao pagamento de matrículas, tanto do contribuinte quanto dos seus dependentes legais, na Educação Básica e o Ensino Superior. Durante muito tempo essa dedução foi considerada como sendo apenas um benefício tributário no campo do IRPF, sem outras implicações. Contudo, esse quadro é modificado a partir do momento em que tais benefícios passaram a ser considerados como gastos tributários (GTs). A ideia de gastos tributários trouxe à tona a problemática de que a partir do momento em que o Estado deixa de arrecadar um tributo, parcial ou integralmente, ele abre mão de uma determinada Receita Orçamentária em prol de objetivos específicos. O conjunto de benefícios integrante da função orçamentária educação indica que há uma quantia de aproximadamente 7,11 bilhões de Reais, no ano de 2012, (RFB, 2011) que se encontra, direta ou indiretamente, vinculada a instituições privadas/pagas de ensino. A dedução das despesas com instrução foi responsável pelo valor de mais três bilhões de Reais, constituindo-se no maior GT na área de Educação, originando uma série de questionamentos dentre os quais: Quando ela foi criada? De onde surgiu a ideia desta dedução? O que sua criação objetivava? Constituiu-se num assunto meramente tributário? Qual o vínculo com a educação e as políticas educacionais? Para responder a tais indagações, foi realizado um estudo detalhado sobre a dedução, constituído metodologicamente com base em pesquisa bibliográfica, pesquisa documental, análise de dados estatísticos e realização de entrevistas com especialistas na área tributária. O direito à educação e o financiamento apareceram como argumentos preponderantes: Tem-se direito à educação, o Estado não garante uma escola de qualidade (de acordo com conceitos coletivos e individuais) e por isso, este direito tem que ser garantido. Por outro lado, se o direito à educação é compreendido como fundamento de um processo abrangente, social e que se refere ao conjunto da população, tem-se que a dedução se encontra descompassada com as prerrogativas do Estado como provedor de uma educação com acesso igualitário e com qualidade minimamente padronizada (vide CAQ). Não se desconsidera a argumentação de que existam problemas relacionados às escolas públicas. Inclusive, o próprio PNE reconhece muitos desses problemas e demanda financiamento para que sejam sanados. Portanto, pontua-se a questão de se continuar financiando essas instituições privadas sob argumentos individuais ou direcionar a verba para que a educação pública supere preponderantemente os problemas elencados. Resumidamente, pode-se concluir que a dedução das despesas com instrução, apesar de ser comumente tratada como uma questão tributária, refere-se sobremaneira a questões educacionais. / The objective of this thesis is to study the modality of public subsidies to private schools through the education expenditure deduction present in IRPF (Act n. 4.357/64), by discussing the arguments in favor or against this deduction existence and/or extinction in current context. It is defined as expenditure with education: the annual expenditure regarding to the school fees, either for the tax payer or their legal dependents, in the basic and higher education. For a long time frame, this deduction has been regarded as being solely a tax benefit in the field of IRPF, without other implications. However, this reality is modified from the moment that such benefits started being regarded as tax expenditure (GTs). The idea of tax expenditure brought the discussion that from the moment the State is prevented from collecting taxes, partially or as fully, it gives up a given amount of budget revenues on behalf of some specific objectives. The overall objectives pertaining the budget function, education, shows that there is an approximate amount of 7,11 billion of Reais in 2012 (RBF, 2011) that is direct or indirectly bound to private/ or paid education provider institutions. The education deduction expenses claims the amount of three billion Reais, becoming the biggest GT in the field of education, which raises some questions, such as: When was it created? What was the source of this deduction idea? What did its creation target? Was it just a taxation issue? What is its linkage to education and education policies? To answer these questions, a detailed study on tax deduction was carried out, relying methodologically on bibliographical research, archival research, statistics data analysis and interviews with researchers on taxation issues. The right to education and the education funding are the keys theories on this study. One has the right to education, the state does not guarantee quality in education (in view of individual and collective concepts), thus one´s right has to be guaranteed. On the other hand, if the right to education is understood as the foundation of a broad and social process that is related to the whole population, it is believed that the deduction is mismatched with the State prerogatives as an guarantor of an equal access and a standardizes quality at it minimal levels education (vide CAQ). The discussion about the problems pertaining the public schools is not overlooked. PNE itself recognizes most of these problems and funding demands to address them. Therefore, the issue is whether the funding should continue to be addressed to these private institutions to address individual demands, or those funds should be addressed to public schools public education so that they overcome the problems identified. Summing up, it can be concluded that education expenditure deduction, though being commonly referred as a taxation issue, refers greatly to educational issues.

The main objective of the thesis is to analyse tax expenditures in the tax system of the Czech Republic. More specifically to identify tax expenditures in legislation setting down personal income tax, corporate income tax and value added tax in 2008 and quantify their impact to tax revenues. The work starts with the review of the literature in this field. There is a rich academic literature dealing with various aspects of tax expenditure analysis starting with their identifi-cation and quantification and continuing to distributional analysis or analysis of compliance costs. Most if the literature originates in the United States where a substantial amount of pa-pers deals with the critique of official tax expenditure reports or with suggestions how to im-prove it. Similar topics are absent in the literature in other countries. Another source are the official tax expenditure reports published in several countries. The conclusion can be drawn that there are no internationally accepted standards of tax expenditures analysis. Another conclu-sion deals with the term tax expenditure itself. It was conceived in the United States in the 1960's to express that many tax reliefs are in fact direct expenditures hidden in the tax system. However sometimes provisions which are not analogical to direct expenditures are called tax expenditures as well. That's why the term tax expenditure is avoided in this thesis. Instead a more general term tax relief is used. Tax expenditures thus represent a subset of tax reliefs. Tax reliefs are defined as provisions of the tax law which represent lower tax liability or deferral of the tax liability for the tax payer. Tax reliefs are identified by their form, i.e. tax exemptions, reduced rates, tax credits etc. Features which represent an integral part of the tax system (e.g. deduction of input VAT) are not identified as a tax relief. This assures that the full list is created. Then the normative analysis is used to identify main rationale for each tax reliefs, i.e. tax reliefs which have been introduced in order to support other public policies' targets (genuine tax expenditures), tax relief which have been introduced in order to increase tax system effectiveness mainly by reducing the compliance costs and finally tax reliefs which share attribute of both aforementioned group. Based on this, there have been identified 210 tax reliefs (PIT: 119, CIT: 62, VAT: 29). From the point of view of further analysis, the most important part represent the genuine tax expenditures. Methods to quantify the identified tax reliefs were devised based on data avail-able. There was identified 57 tax expenditures out of all 210 tax reliefs with total amount of CZK 120 bn. It is important to bear in mind however that the simple addition of tax reliefs is not methodologically correct since abolition of several tax reliefs has different impact on tax revenues than addition of individually quantified impacts. The main contribution of the thesis consists in setting up a complete list of the tax re-liefs in the tax system of the Czech Republic for the taxes with the highest revenues. This will enable to prepare such an analysis on a regular basis, to include other taxes and to improve the methods used. The stakeholders in the field of public finance policy and tax policy will thus have more information available to design more effective policies. Further research dealing with other aspects of selected tax expenditures such as their distributional impacts can draw from this thesis as well.

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Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2018-12-04T11:06:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Luiz Felipe Menezes Tronquini_.pdf: 3106505 bytes, checksum: f78ef637415f6d4dd3651a111ba1599d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-04T11:06:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luiz Felipe Menezes Tronquini_.pdf: 3106505 bytes, checksum: f78ef637415f6d4dd3651a111ba1599d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-08-21 / Nenhuma / A Dissertação almeja compreender em que medida o modelo jurídico-administrativo da Lei de Responsabilidade Fiscal previsto para a transparência da concessão de incentivos tributários que acarreta renúncia de receita tributária é condição de possibilidade para a concretização do direito à boa administração pública no âmbito municipal. Valendo-se do procedimento bibliográfico-documental, em uma abordagem fenomenológica-hermenêutica, tem como ponto de partida o desvelamento histórico da tradição dos institutos do incentivo tributário e da renúncia de receita tributária para a construção de um horizonte de sentido constitucionalmente adequado e que ressalte a necessidade do controle da sua concessão para além dos limites fiscais. Também, explicita que a gestão fiscal responsável é um dever jusconstitucional estatal para a boa administração e que atua na legitimação da renúncia de receita tributária. Forte nesses pressupostos e da noção de cibertransparência, realiza pesquisa empírica através de consulta aos Portais da Transparência dos dez Municípios com maior Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul do ano de 2014, para verificar a sua demonstração. Constata a ausência da disponibilização de qualquer demonstrativo sobre a sua prática (ou não) por essas municipalidades e conclui pela sua opacidade, na contramão do modelo estatuído pela Constituição da República de 1988, Lei de Responsabilidade Fiscal e Lei de Acesso à Informação. Em consequência, as hipóteses vislumbradas como resolutivas do problema proposto não se realizaram quando verificadas empiricamente. Visando ao exercício da boa administração pública, sugere um rol de dados que podem ser divulgados pelas Fazendas Públicas em seus portais da transparência, de forma universal e compreensível, para que seja revertido o cenário encontrado e potencializada a informação pública em rede, fazendo acontecer o controle social e institucional da renúncia de receita tributária de acordo com o propósito constitucional. / This Master's dissertation aims at understanding the extent to which the legal-administrative model of the Brazilian Fiscal Responsibility Law, provided for transparency in the provision of tax benefits that entails tax expenditure, is a condition of possibility for the right to good public administration in the municipal scope. Using a bibliographic-documentary procedure, in a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach, it has as its starting point the historical unveiling of the tradition of tax benefits and tax expenditure institutes to the construction of a horizon of sense that is constitutionally adequate and that emphasizes the need to control its concession beyond the fiscal limits. It also clarifies that the responsible fiscal management is a state’s constitutional duty to the good administration and that it acts in the legitimation of tax expenditure. Based on these assumptions as well as on the notion of cyber transparency, an empirical research was conducted by consulting the Transparency Portals of the ten Municipalities with the highest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul in 2014 to verify its demonstration. It notes the absence of the availability of any statement on its realization (or not) by these municipalities and concludes by its opacity, contrary to the model established by Brazil’s Constitution of Republic of 1988, Fiscal Responsibility Law and Access to Information Law. Consequently, the hypotheses envisaged as solving the proposed problem were not realized when empirically verified. Aiming the exercise of good public administration, it suggests a list of data that can be disseminated by the state in its Transparency Portals, in a universal and understandable way, in order to reverse the scenario found in these Portals and to enhance public information online, making the social and institutional control of tax expenditure happen according to the constitutional purpose.

This thesis evaluates the Children’s Fitness Tax Credit and similar credits to determine whether they are suitable to increase physical activity levels in Canada. It begins by reviewing the literature on physical activity to establish that increasing physical activity is a worthy public policy goal. It then reviews the literature on tax expenditures and health behaviour interventions to provide information in order to evaluate the credits. The credits are then described and their stated purpose is discussed. This description establishes how quickly the credits expanded from one small credit to many. One of the credits, the Active Families Benefit, requires a new concept to evaluate it as it is not simply a tax measure or a spending measure. The term hybrid tax measure is introduced to explore this credit. An evaluation of the credits considering their effectiveness, efficiency and equity in determining their suitability to increase physical activity is performed and the conclusion is made that they are unlikely to be effective and that the inequity of the credits is problematic, particularly in light of this ineffectiveness finding. It is recommended that the credits be repealed and no new credits be created, but as repeal is unlikely, alternative recommendations are also provided.