%0 Journal Article %T Tributa£¿£¿o, Reforma e Federalismo: uma vis£¿o atual da Am¨¦rica Latina %A Afonso %A Jos¨¦ Roberto %A Junqueira %A Gabriel %J Documentos y aportes en administraci£¿3n p£¿oblica y gesti£¿3n estatal %D 2007 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the objective of this paper is to analyze the tax system in latin-american federations (argentina, brazil and mexico) and its reforms. the startpoint is a contextualization about the macroeconomic and social scenario, from which we make a diagnosis of taxation in the region -with special attention paid to the evolution of the tax burden-. following is a presentation of the recent reform agenda, focused on the federative debate. at the end, some perspectives and trends are drawn. %K tax reform %K latin am¨¦rica. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1851-37272007000200007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en