| dc.description.abstract | Within our country we have public companies, which are entities created by the State for different fines, one of them is the provision of public services; In the particular case of Cuenca, the public company ETAPA EP is in charge of providing telecommunications services, potable water, sewerage and environmental management.
However, the municipalities constitutionally have the financial autonomy to generate and manage their own resources. The municipal taxes are part of these resources, according to what has been stated it can be concluded that the Municipality of Cuenca has the power to create its own taxes, as a manifestation of the autonomy that is recognized; However, it does not matter that public companies have the same faculty.
Therefore, with this monographic work, I intend to carry out an analysis in the light of the Constitution of the Republic, the law and the doctrine, in order to publicize the framework of action of public companies, regarding the creation, modification And Extinction of taxes, and with that to determine the legality of the modification of the tariff of drinking water and the sanitation in the city of Cuenca, carried out in April by the part of the board of the public company ETAPA. | |
