Crimes tributários à luz do conceito de bem jurídico penal e do princípio da intervenção mínima: criminalização ou descriminalização?

Abstract

The present dissertation besides being a prerequisite for obtaining a master's degree in Economic Law has the principal objective to analyze the tax crimes in Brazil. The dissertation was done under the legal concept of criminal law and under the minimum intervention principle. For this, I examined the effect economic globalization has caused in the field of postmodernist criminal science, which resulted in the expansion of criminal law. This expansion, further intensified by globalization, increased the protection of individual rights under the penal code, including in criminal tax cases. In addition, we sought to establish what a just penal criminal right should be, being that a Penal Right should strictly protect relevant judicial rights, and may not be used for other purposes such as, for example, charging unnecessary taxes. Still, we tried to address the principle of minimum intervention and its consequences in criminal science, especially in the field of tax offenses. We also analyzed whether or not legal tax rights are legitimized under Criminal Tax Law.; when analyzed through the prism of the legal concept of criminal law and the principle of minimum intervention, and then tried to demonstrate that the Criminal Law in this area, is used a distorted form, in so far as it seeks only to impose a duty to taxpayers to pay taxes. Finally, we present some alternative solutions to the process of decriminalization of conduct that are now tax crimes, because it was found that such crimes are not compatible with the notion of a criminal law aimed at protecting legal rights and the principle of intervention minimal.