
Brazilian jeitinho
An inherited culture of default, tax evasion, and resistance to paying taxesBy Sergio Ricardo Ferreira MotaLength6h 9m
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The original version of this book was published in Brazil (Jeitinho brasileiro, mazelas históricas e cultura jurídico-tributária. Florianópolis: Editora Insular, 2012), and a Spanish edition of this book was also published in Argentina (Jeitinho brasileño, lacras históricas y cultura jurídico-tributária: ensayo académico. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Ruinas Circulares, 2013).
There is a preface written by Letraduz for the English edition. The book also includes prefaces written by Professor Antônio Carlos Wolkmer and Professor Ubaldo Cesar Balthazar for the Portuguese edition, as well as a presentation written by journalists Raúl Fitipaldi and Tali Feld Gleiser for the Spanish edition.
Works by some of the main authors who wrote about this Brazilian jeitinho were consulted – Bernardino Leers, Fernanda Carlos Borges, Keith Rosenn, Lívia Barbosa, Lourenço Stelio Rega, Mériti de Souza, and Roberto DaMatta – as a theoretical framework to support the research, as well as works by some of the main authors who wrote about Brazil – Caio Prado Júnior, Carlos Guilherme Mota, Celso Furtado, Dante Moreira Leite, Darcy Ribeiro, Gilberto Freyre, Raymundo Faoro, Roberto Simonsen, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, and Victor Nunes Leal – and, in particular, on the history of Law in Brazil – Antônio Carlos Wolkmer, Mauro de Albuquerque Madeira, Savério Mandêtta and Ubaldo Cesar Balthazar –, among others.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length6 hrs 9 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 21, 2025
LanguagePortuguese
Table of contents
1Presentation written by Professor Ubaldo for the Portuguese edition
172.2.1 Complex Legislation
2Presentation written by Journalists Raúl and Tali for the Spanish edition
182.2.2 Practices of Reinterpreting Legislation
3Prologue written by the Author for the English edition
192.2.3 Bureaucracy
4Preface written by Letraduz for the English edition
202.2.4 Corruption and Patrimonialism
5Preface written by Professor Wolkmer for the Portuguese edition
212.2.5 Inequalities and Historical Ills
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6Introduction
223. BRAZILIAN JEITINHO AND THE BRAZILIAN LEGAL AND TAX CULTURE
71. A PECULIAR WAY OF DOING THINGS IN BRAZIL
233.1 Perpetuated Ills
81.1 Brazilian jeitinho
243.1.1 Concentration of Income and Wealth
91.2 Historical Ills
253.1.2 Social and Regional Inequalities
101.3 National Culture
263.1.3 Unequal Distribution of the Tax Burden
112. BRAZILIAN LEGAL CULTURE
273.2 Other Historical Phenomena
122.1 Formation of the Uniqueness of the Brazilian Legal Culture
283.2.1 Fiscal Oppression
132.1.1 Colonial Brazil (1500–1808)
293.2.2 Tax Evasion
142.1.2 Empire of Brazil (1808–1889)
303.2.3 Distortions of the Political Tax Option
152.1.3 Republic of Brazil (1889–today)
31Appendix
162.2 Peculiarities of the Brazilian Legal Culture