A extrafiscalidade tributária como ferramenta de proteção ao meio ambiente

Abstract

The research aimed to examine wether the tax mechanisms, through the perspective of the extrafiscality, are able to increase the effectiveness of the environmental protection public policies. To this aim, it was adopted the descriptive research method, based on the analysis and interpretation of the doctrine and legislation applicable to the research objectives, including, if and when appropriate, a case-law analysis. Comparing these references for the purpose of scientific production, was examined the preservation of the environment as a fundamental right and the duty to pay taxes as a form of embodiment of the principle of social solidarity, used as the basis of public policies for environmental preservation. To that, was proposed the use of the extrafiscality of the taxes as a way of inducing behaviors appropriate to the preservation of an ecologically balabced envinronment, including the presentation of certain alternative embodiments of the extrafiscality for environmental purposes.