Aumento da oferta e redução de impostos nos serviços de infra-estrutura na economia brasileira: uma abordagem de equilíbrio geral

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Maria Aparecida Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/135
• topic: Serviços; Impostos; Equilíbrio geral; Infrastructure services; Taxes; General Equilibrium; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA::CRESCIMENTO, FLUTUACOES E PLANEJAMENTO ECONOMICO

The country s infrastructure conditions are related to the economic growth and its performance. Cost reduction in the infrastructure services implies increase in the productivity of private production factors, promoting investment and growth in the economy. Since the 1980s, the exhaustion of the State financing capacity reduced drastically the investments in infrastructure, leading to decrease in the quality of these services and rising their prices in Brazil. In addition, high taxes upon the services rendered by the infrastructure sectors increase their costs for the productive sector. Thus, the objective of this research is to analyze the impacts of policies to reduce costs of infrastructure services for the productive sector on the Brazilian economy. The study used an Applied General Equilibrium model that allowed the simulation of policy implementation aiming at increasing supply of infrastructure services and reducing taxes upon those activities. In general, these policies would promote growth of the activity aggregation level in the productive sector, preferably benefiting transformation and extractive industries. The country s productive sectors would become more competitive, as these policies would reduce the prices of infrastructure services, and consequently the costs of the same. Higher competitiveness in the productive sector would be reflected in Brazil s export growth. And as a consequence of these policies, there would be increase in the remuneration of capital and labor factors, increasing family income and consumption. Still, a better capital remuneration would promote investment growth. There would be a reduction in government revenue with the implementation of tax policies, smaller than the increase in tax collection, due to the economic growth. GDP would be positive, and consumers would have utility gain. It is concluded that these policies would promote higher competitiveness in the productive sector, expansion of the economy and consumer well-being.