FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL TAXATION
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The paper deals with the study of the main legal principles that base environmental taxation, emphasizing the important technical and legal difficulties that the implementation of these financial instruments imply; As well as legal strategies to overcome them with the intention of establishing taxable means able to achieve its objectives, which are to produce positive effects on the environment, in addition to raising revenue for the Public Treasury. Of course, the current concern for environmental protection is inherent in the entire legal system, so the legal-fiscal order cannot remain insensitive. In addition, the legal feasibility of such taxes and their effectiveness in preserving the environment were studied. Such impositions are presented as a means to internalize negative externalities. Through bibliographic research, it is demonstrated that the complexity of the environmental tax problems faced, with the objective of finding out how a solution to the underlined problem can be reached. It is concluded that the duty to contribute, whose foundation is the principle of solidarity, is presented as an appropriate instrument for the preservation of the environment.
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