AUTONOMÍA ECONÓMICA Y DESCENTRALIZACIÓN FISCAL EN EL ESTADO SOBERANO DE BOLÍVAR, 1857-1886

Abstract

The article analyzes the impact of the economic autonomy and fiscal decentralization in the sovereign state of Bolivar and its districts between 1857 and 1886. The central idea of the text is that to be under control of the nation the collection of customs, the Sovereign State of Bolívar taxed the most important economic activities of its inhabitants, which had a negative impact on the districts since they had few alternatives to create new taxes due to the activities and the production that could be taxed or were burdened by the nation or they were by the sovereign state. The latter ended up causing disputes between the districts and the state for the control of scarce economic resources that were available. Thus, the rent system established by the State, rather than promote political, administrative and economic, which it did was to generate a fiscal centralization of taxes.