INSTITUTE CEARENSE OF ESTUDES TRIBUTÁRIOS

Official Channel of the Institute Cearense of Estudes Tributários

Twenty-eight years ago, a group of researchers gathered around Professor Hugo Machado's ideas. Meetings and interest in studies in the legal field and, in particular, on Tax Law, have become increasingly frequent. As a result of common enthusiasm, on May 28, 1991, the Institute Cearense of Estudes Tributários, ICET.

In 1998, Professor Hugo Machado is chosen to preside over ICET. With the tenacity of work that is peculiar to him, he starts to coordinate collective research work, with fifteen published works and the sixteenth in the elaboration phase, in partnership, at first, with the publishing house Dialética, from São Paulo and, currently, with the publishing house Malheiros, also from São Paulo. It stands out, without favor, as one of the most important sources of research in the area, with a notable influence on the orientation of the jurisprudence of the Brazilian Courts.