Imbalance between the constitutional principles of taxes and public expenditure

Pages129-133
Date01 January 2023
Published date01 January 2023
AuthorJavier Lasarte Álvarez
Subject MatterDerecho Fiscal
News and commentary – revisado por pares
https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-3583/19810
Studi Tributari Europei. Vol.13 (2023)
ISSN 2036-3583
Desequilibrio entre los principios constitucionales de
tributos y gastos públicos
Javier Lasarte*
Publicado: 31 de julio de 2024
Imbalance between the constitutional principles of taxes and public expenditure
The imbalance that reaches the basic principles of tax regulation in general and, on the other
hand, decisions on public expenditure, is manifested in the social concern for tax justice and the
lack of attention to the fundamental principles that should be followed for the determination
of expenditure nanced by public resources. Public budget revenues obtained through taxation
are coercive economic benets that in theory should be subject to constitutional principles that
have a substantial content in the service of tax justice. The necessary correlation between public
expenditure and national needs is a dierent matter from the economic and nancial audit of
the accounts and the consequent prosecution of accounting responsibility – hence the need to
formulate budgetary principles that require a strict link between public expenditure and public
needs, while at the same time establishing a control procedure.
El desequilibrio que alcanza los principios básicos de la regulación de los tributos en general y,
por otra, a las decisiones sobre gastos públicos,se maniesta en la preocupación social por la jus-
ticia scal y la falta de atención a los principios fundamentales que deberían seguirse para la
determinación de los gastos nanciados por recursos públicos.Los ingresos de los presupuestos
públicos obtenidos a través de los tributos son prestaciones económicas coactivas que en teoría
deben someterse a principios constitucionales que tienen un contenido substancial al servicio de
la justicia scal. La correlación necesaria entre gastos públicos y necesidades nacionales, es una
cuestión distinta a la scalización económico-nanciera de las cuentas y el consiguiente enjuicia-
miento de la responsabilidad contable. Por ello se insiste en la necesidad de formular principios
presupuestarios que exijan la estricta vinculación entre gastos públicos y necesidades públicas,
estableciendo paralelamente un procedimiento de control.
Keyword: tributos y gastos; asignación equitativa de los recursos públicos; principios constitu-
cionales del presupuesto público; Equidad; eciencia y economía.
Este comentario hace referencia a la descompensación entre la atención prestada por el Derecho,
por una parte, a los principios básicos de la regulación de los tributos en general y, por otra, a
las decisiones sobre gastos públicos, que cristalizan cada año en los presupuestos de los diferentes
órganos de gobierno y sus correspondientes administraciones.
Tal desequilibrio se maniesta en la preocupación social por la justicia scal y la falta de atención a
los principios fundamentales que deberían seguirse para la determinación de los gastos nanciados
por recursos públicos. Esta cuestión alcanza a los poderes legislativo, ejecutivo y judicial, a la mayo-
ría de contribuyentes, a los profesionales y profesores universitarios de estas áridas materias. Y tal
despreocupación lleva a que la elección de los gastos y la jación de sus respectivas cuantías (que
son las razones de la existencia de los tributos) se consideren un campo reservado a los libérrimos
acuerdos de los políticos, que solo ellos proponen, debaten y deciden.
* Universidad Pablo de Olavide(ES); jlasalv@upo.es
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