A supressão da sucessão tributária e trabalhista na alienação da unidade produtiva isolada sob o prisma da preservação da empresa

Abstract

The suppression of the succession of tax and labor contingencies on the sale of the isolated productive unit, a new rule established under Brazilian legal system through the Law Nº 11.101/2005 is a subject that carries out several doubts related to the bankruptcy and corporate reorganization. The main principle that rules the interpretation of the Reorganization and Bankruptcy Law is the maintenance of the corporation. This principle shall guide many questions that arise from the termination of the succession of tax and labor matters, when the purchase of the isolated productive unit takes place. This expression, for the very first time used in Brazilian legislation, brings several consequences related to the judicial sale of goods, regarding labor and tax obligation, bringing responsibility to the debtor submitted to the bankruptcy or corporate reorganization in view of the one who acquires the “establishment” and intends to maintain its corporate activities. This paper will deal with such consequences.