CORREIO BRAZILIENSE (03/07/2018) – To grow, Brazil needs to simplify taxation

Ana Frazão, lawyer and professor of Civil Law at the University of Brasília (UnB), argues that it is necessary to end tax privileges, given to certain sectors of the economy, because this generates an unequal system and contributes to the concentration of income. In addition, the expert argues that the State is the first to comply with the legislation, which has not been doing, contributing to the practice of evasion. Ana Frazão criticized the Special Tax Regulatory Program (Pert), better known as Refis, which was approved at the National Congress in 2017, giving discounts of up to 90% and portioning companies' debts. The text of the provisional measure (MP) benefited the irregular companies. "I imagine an entrepreneur even correct, who pays the taxes properly, feeling obligated not to pay (taxes) to keep himself on the market. Yeah, how are you gonna run with someone who's not subject to the same tax burden?", he asked.