scholarly journals Impact of tax competition on fiscal incomes of Kazakhstan in terms of tax competitive environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 06006
Author(s):  
Aliya Shakbutova ◽  
Abdizhapar Saparbayev ◽  
Popek Stanislaw ◽  
Aiymzhan Makulova ◽  
Aigerim Nurmukhan

International tax competition requires tax reforms from all countries in the world. To meet international standards, countries use different methods to attract resources to their economies. Fierce tax competition in the world has prompted Kazakhstan to significantly liberalize the tax system, reduce the number of taxes and their rates for the main types of taxes, and simplify tax registration procedures, tax accounting and tax reporting for taxpayers, making it one of the most attractive tax systems in the world. However, such actions and reforms aimed at improving tax competitiveness may in one way or another affect Kazakhstan’s fiscal income, which is an important topic of research. The research is based on the tax system and tax income of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the international tax competitive environment. In the course of the study, the tax system of Kazakhstan, its features and reforms, and the structure of the budget income of Kazakhstan were primarily analyzed. Keywords: tax competition, tax system, fiscal income, effects of tax competition.

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Alla Sokolovska ◽  
Tetyana Zatonatska ◽  
Andriy Stavytskyy ◽  
Oleksii Lyulyov ◽  
Vincent Giedraitis

The aim of the paper is to determine to what extent the strengthening of the transparency of the Ukrainian economy and its incorporation in international tax competition affects the tax policy of the country and the peculiarities of its tax system. In the study, the logical analysis of the direct and inverse relationship of changes in taxation with such manifestations of globalization, as the movement of capital and labor resources from Ukraine and to the country, is combined with an empirical (regression) analysis of the relationship between globalization and the main characteristics of the Ukrainian tax system. It is proved that the increase of incorporation of Ukraine in globalization processes, despite the reduction of taxes on the main factors of production, is accompanied by an increase in the general level of tax burden on the economy (tax rate). The above mentioned is a consequence of increase of other taxes, including excise, caused both by internal needs of Ukraine (conducting the policy of fiscal consolidation caused by large public debt, and increasing defense expenditures) and its international obligations (EU Association Agreement). The tax system in Ukraine is much stronger (about 25%) influenced by the general index of globalization in comparison with its subindex characterizing the economic component of globalization. Obviously, this is owing to the greater influence on taxation in Ukraine of other components of globalization such as political and social one. The results show that the growth of the globalization index is accompanied by rather expected effects such as reduction of corporate profit tax rates and personal income tax, transferring the tax burden from capital to labor and, to a greater extent, on consumption, improving business conditions in the context of tax payments, and specific increase in the general level of tax burden on the economy, significant losses of the state that is not so much from the reduction of tax rates as from the erosion of the tax base on income, which is the result of a combination of negative effects of external and internal factors; the threat of escalating the policy of low tax rates. It is recommended to the Ukrainian Government to focus increasingly on the tax evolution trends in post-socialist EU countries to strengthen Ukraine`s position in tax competition with this group of countries.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (8) ◽  
pp. 42-56
Author(s):  
Nataliya FROLOVA ◽  

The article presents an assessment of the impact of capital cost recovery policies of the OECD countries and Ukraine on their international tax competitiveness, based on a comparison of the treatments of investment in machinery, buildings, and intangibles that a business can recover through the tax code via depreciation. The rating of the international tax competitiveness of the OECD countries and Ukraine is based on the standardized capital allowances. Although the assessment of international tax competitiveness is expressed by the only indicator, such as capital allowances, it serves to prove that international tax competition is responded not only by reducing tax rates but also by defining a business tax base. According to the results of the study, the dominant position in the ranking of the OECD countries is occupied by countries that are able to recover higher costs of capital investments (over 68%). These countries are characterized by particularly high (by international standards) capital allowances for equipment and intangibles (over 82%). Unfortunately, due to the lack of tax harmonization of the Ukrainian tax system, specifically its treatment of capital allowances, with the EU and OECD countries, Ukraine falls behind in the ranking of international tax competitiveness. Thus, in order to enhance the competitiveness of the domestic corporate income tax system, Ukraine's treatment of capital investments in core assets, especially buildings and intangibles, should be improved and brought in line with both modern Ukrainian socio-economic realities and the capital cost recovery provisions accepted in the OECD.


2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (35) ◽  
pp. 449-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. P. Devereux ◽  
R. Griffith ◽  
A. Klemm

Author(s):  
Geoffrey Hale

The author addresses the politics of business taxation and international tax competition as an interactive series of two- (and sometimes multi-) level games embedded in broader debates over international competition for investment and the distribution of fiscal costs and benefits within Canada. Drawing on several international relations theories (neo-institutionalist, public choice, and realist), the author explores the evolution of Canada's business tax system in relation to the evolving systems of other major competitors for international investment, especially the United States--changes that are occurring as part of a wider effort to balance and integrate competing and overlapping objectives of domestic and international economic policies. The author summarizes the historical and contemporary context for international tax competition, particularly with respect to income shifting, macro- and micro-challenges of tax arbitrage, and the tradeoffs involved in managing the domestic politics of taxation. The author concludes by identifying the options available for maintaining domestic fiscal and policy flexibility while responding effectively to growing tax competition, as embodied in the US tax reform of 2017 and other shifts in policy that point to declining political commitment to an open economy paradigm among Canada's major trading partners.


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