Season 1 – Episode 6: Tax Reform, with Bernard Appy

A special episode airs on Economisto: Bernard Appy, the mastermind behind the tax reform proposal currently being debated in Congress (PEC 45/2019), is this week's guest. Taxation on consumption, its impact on the poorest and wealthiest populations, the CPMF (a tax on financial transactions), and other topics are part of the conversation about tax reform – a subject increasingly debated in Brazil.

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Newspaper articles:

PEC 45 and income distribution

Who pays taxes in Brazil?

Studies:

Tax Reform and Fiscal Federalism: An analysis of proposals to create a new value-added tax for Brazil.

Why the Brazilian tax system needs to be reformed.

Reform of the Brazilian Model for Taxation of Goods and Services

Books:

Tax by design