Brazilian tax law: a realistic discursive approach
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2177-7055.2025.e103805Keywords:
Brazilian tax law, Tax discourse, Tax field, Realistic approach, Discursive approachAbstract
The widespread idea that Brazilian tax law is autonomous did not result from this object’s inherent characteristics but from the behaviour of actors who developed a specific type of discourse. Once it is impossible to analyse tax law objectively since it only exists in the attitudes of the actors identified with its social practice, its understanding necessarily passes through observing these actors’ attitudes in the Brazilian legal field. This article aims to present a proposal for a realistic, discursive approach to Brazilian tax law based on the premise that this realism does not necessarily imply a new theory of law but a realistic legal attitude towards the tax phenomenon. The hypothesis is that the discursive approach corresponds to the best method to unify the different legal traditions by emphasising the actors that make up this field. The conclusion is that this approach allows articulating the abstract categories of legal formalism with the tax materiality, resulting in recognition of taxation as a social phenomenon and allowing the lawyer to identify the discourse of Brazilian tax law from the contrast of its social practice with other actors in the tax field.
KEYWORDS: Brazilian tax law; Tax field; Tax discourse; Realistic approach; Discursive approach.
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