Taxation, Inequality, and the Illusion of the Social Contract in Brazil

Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira, José Ricardo Bezerra Nogueira

Brazil combines high inequality and high tax yield as percentage of the GDP.This situation contradicts the predictions of two central theories of taxation and democratic politics. The first theory predicts that, within a democratic context, high levels of income inequality …
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