scholarly journals Innovative approaches to the assessment of the impact of the shadow economy on social development: an analysis of causation

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 165-174
Author(s):  
Inna Tiutiunyk ◽  
Angela Kuznetsova ◽  
Jana Spankova
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Shadow Economy ◽  
Causal Analysis ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Social Contribution ◽  
Individual Effects ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The article investigates the causal links between the level of the shadow economy and indicators of social development of 13 European countries. Based on the analysis of research results of scientists, three hypotheses concerning relationship between the analyzed indicators: there is a one-way link between social development indicators and the level of the shadow economy; there is a one-way causal link between the level of the shadow economy and the country's social development; there is a bilateral relationship between the analyzed indicators were tested. Based on the causal analysis the main hypothesis that the increase in the level of the shadow economy is accompanied by a decrease in the level of social development of the country is proved. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the correlation between the level of the shadow economy and the indicators of social development of the country using methods of causal analysis and panel data from 2010 to 2019. Based on comparative analysis of the levels of the shadow economy, share of the population at the level of poverty and share of the population in a difficult financial situation the statistically significant indirect relationship between indicators has been proved. The analysis of the relationship between the level of the shadow economy and the share of personal income tax and social contribution to GDP was made using the Granger test. Reliability established hypotheses and the nature of the relationship between the indicators on the basis of the construction of end-to-end regression (Wald test), regression with fixed individual effects (Brush-Pegan test) and regression with random individual effects (Hausman test) was carried out. Empirical calculations show that it is appropriate to describe the relationships between the level of the shadow economy and the amount of single social contribution, personal income tax and Index of Social Development by using a model with fixed individual effects. All indices are statistically at 5% significant level.

scholarly journals Tax decentralization under local government reform conditions

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
G. Isanshyna ◽  
O. Dubynska
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Shadow Economy ◽  
Fiscal Decentralization ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Practical Result ◽  
Local Budget ◽  
Decentralization Reform ◽  
The Impact

The primary objective of the paper is to investigate the main directions of decentralization reform, trends in local budget revenues in Ukraine, to assess the impact of decentralization reform on the structure and composition of local budgets financial resources, to identify the ways of their optimization. The main components of decentralization reform, the main practical results of territorial and fiscal decentralization in Ukraine are formulated in this paper. Analysis of the development of voluntary territorial communities association in the country during the last five years is carried out. The principles of public administration and the development of normative regulation of local self-government, voluntary association of territorial communities and their cooperation are investigated. It is determined that the practical result of administrative-territorial decentralization is to ensure the creation of new capable territorial entities – united territorial communities. The practical result of tax decentralization is the increase of financial capacity of the united territorial communities. The dynamics of the share of local taxes and fees in own revenues of the general local budgets fund is considered, special attention is paid to such national tax as personal income tax. The dependence of local budgets on transfers from the state budget is noted. And all this on the basis of achievement the ratio of state and local budget revenues of most EU countries is 50:50. The directions of reducing the risk of financial unreliability of local governments under COVID-19 conditions are determined. The difficulties of tax administration of large taxpayers; the main factors determining the size of the shadow economy in the country are investigated. There is no direct relationship between the level of taxation in Ukraine and the level shadow economy. The assessment of the extent of concealment and incomplete reporting of domestic businesses according to the survey in the framework of the SHADOW project is made. The consequences of increasing shadow economy share in the country are determined. The experience of several European countries in personal income taxation is studied, the peculiarities of granting the right to apply the social tax benefit from the personal income tax is determined. Recommendations for optimizing the taxation of individuals in terms of taxation of dividends are provided in this paper.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT ON THE FORMATION OF STATE BUDGET REVENUES IN UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitalii Rysin ◽  
Illia Antoshchuk
Keyword(s):  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Budget Deficit ◽  
Shadow Economy ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Informal Employment ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Tax Revenues ◽  
The Impact

The annual execution of the Consolidated Budget of Ukraine with a deficit determines the need for borrowing and increases the country's public debt. Failure to receive a significant amount of funds in the budgets of different levels is provoked primarily by tax evasion by a significant part of potential taxpayers. This applies in particular to the personal income tax, the bulk of which comes from the collection of salaries of individuals. The purpose of the article is to identify the impact of informal employment and non-payment of taxes on the budget's shortfall of a significant amount of tax revenues, to determine the possible consequences of this phenomenon and ways to minimize it. 2020 increased Ukraine's Consolidated Budget deficit almost threefold compared to 2019. This increase in the budget deficit was due not only to the emergence of unplanned costs associated with the negative consequences of the pandemic, but also to a reduction in tax revenues due to the quarantine restrictions imposed by the authorities. The excess of government spending over revenue has once again exacerbated the question of whether the state uses all its resources efficiently to fill the budget. Of course, it is difficult to fully assess how much the Consolidated Budget loses revenue each year due to corruption, money laundering, the shadow economy and a number of other factors. However, in the article, based on open data on the number of informally employed, we tried to estimate the budget losses from personal income tax from wages, based on the number of informally employed during 2014-2020, and compare the results with the size of the Consolidated Budget deficit of Ukraine similar period. This allowed us to assess the possibility of overcoming the budget deficit by removing a large number of informally employed workers from the shadow of income. It is determined that shadow employment is only one of the many factors of budget revenue shortfalls, but overcoming it can significantly reduce the budget deficit. However, overcoming informal employment and the shadow economy in general requires not only increased control over business activities and the payment of taxes, but also a set of measures to stimulate indirect impact, which in the medium term may lead to economic entities out of the shadows and legalize their income.

scholarly journals Evaluation the impact of the personal income tax reform in the Czech Republic in 2021 on effective tax rate and tax progressivity

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-145
Author(s):  
M. Krajňák ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Tax Reform ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Effective Tax Rate ◽  
Tax Base ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Tax Progressivity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Income Tax Reform

Legislation governing personal income taxation is often subject to changes. A significant personal income tax reform was carried out in the Czech Republic in 2021. The reform implements a progressive tax rate, changes the way the tax base is determined, and increases the tax relief for the taxpayer. The aim of the article is to evaluate the impact of the personal income tax reform on the effective tax rate and tax progressivity. To that end, methods of regression analysis have been used. The source of information for analysis was the data published by the Czech Statistical Office. It was found that in 2021, in comparison with 2020, the tax burden represented in this study by the effective tax rate, in all cases became lower, approximately by 5%. The main reason for this decline is the adjustment of the method of construction of the tax base, which, for the first time in the history of the Income Tax Act, is gross wages. Until the end of 2020, the tax base was a super-gross wage, or the gross wage increased by social security contribution borne by the employer at his costs. The second factor that reduces the tax burden is a CZK 3,000 increase in the deduction per taxpayer per year. This fact increases the degree of tax progressivity, as confirmed by the results of the progressivity analysis and the regression analysis. The changes that have taken place in the personal income tax this year have a positive impact on the taxpayer, but from the point of view of the state, this reform has reduced the state budget revenues.

scholarly journals Opportunities for Simplification in the Personal Income Tax Systems of the Visegrad Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-553
Author(s):  
Éva Bonifert Szabóné
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Degree Of Approximation ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Tax Burden ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
It Use ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Tax Systems ◽  
The Impact

Due to the numerous factors that can influence the impact of the tax system and redistribution, there is no single correct answer to the question of which composition of economic policy instruments needs to be applied to achieve a desired redistributive effect. The general aim of the study is to investigate in relation to the quantifiable parameters of income tax systems, whether the consideration of the aspects of fairness and justice does have an excessively negative effect on the simplicity of tax systems. The study investigates the possibilities of simplifying the personal income tax system’s composition in some Central and Eastern European countries, while tax burden curves of the system remain as constant as possible. To this end, the study sets up a theoretical, simplified tax model, the parameters of which are determined by a computer program, in order to generate tax burden curves corresponding most closely to the curves of the real tax system. Based on the analysis, it can be established that the theoretical system – in some cases with restrictions – provides a good approximation to the tax burden curves of the investigated countries. The chosen simple model has a good degree of approximation to a real system that does not have significant breakpoints in its tax burden curves, nor does it use a taxation method that fundamentally modifies the system (e.g., splitting). Practical examples help to understand that a complex personal income tax system in a given country is not necessarily the only possible solution to achieve a given tax burden curve, the function may be reproduced with a good approximation constructed from simpler basic elements.

scholarly journals Personal Income Tax and Social Security Coordination in Cross-Border Employment – a Case Study of the Czech Republic and Denmark

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Tepperová
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Social Security Contributions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

Neither personal income tax nor social security is harmonised within the EU. Social security systems are coordinated at EU level whereas personal income tax in cross-border situations is governed by respective double tax treaties. In most EU countries, personal income tax and social security contributions are relatively distinct payments. This article examines problems surrounding the interaction between personal income tax and social security contributions on a national and international level based on a case study of cross-border employment between the Czech Republic and Denmark. As the Czech and the Danish systems are designed very differently, the case study allows for clear illustration of the issue at-hand. The aim is to identify the elements influencing the impact of different coordination rules in personal income tax and social security contributions, illustrate and discuss the potential problems of such mismatches between the two payments. The impact on final payments differs, not only due to the different levels of coordination of the payments, but also due to the different designs of the two national systems. Thus, it would be very difficult to address all the scenarios with a one size fits all measure for all the EU Member States that would overcome the differences in this coordination.

scholarly journals Can Tax Incentives for Electronic Payments Curtail the Shadow Economy? Korea`s Attempt to Reduce Underreporting in Retail Businesses

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-134
Author(s):  
Sung Myung Jae ◽  
Awasthi Rajul ◽  
Lee Hyung Chul
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Shadow Economy ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Gini Coefficients ◽  
Korean Economy ◽  
Business Income

Increasing tax revenues by curtailing the shadow economy has been a central goal of tax policy and administration in the Republic of Korea since the National Tax Service was established as an independent agency in 1966. This paper examines the Tax Incentives for Electronically Traceable Payments (TIETP) introduced by the Korean tax authorities in 1999 to promote payments made using credit cards, debit cards, and electronic cash receipts in business-to-consumer transactions. TIETP allows wage and salary earners to claim tax deductions for eligible purchases made using electronically traceable payments when they file their year-end income tax return. This tax incentive scheme has greatly contributed to transforming the Korean economy into a cashless economy over the last decade and a half. Card payments as a ratio of Korea`s GDP have ranked highest in the world since 2005, reaching 49% in 2014. TIETP has increased the percentage of business income earners who pay taxes from stagnant at around 30% up to the late 1990s to approximately 80% at present. The effective personal income tax rate for business income followed a continuous upward trend from 3.4% in 1998 to 6.3% in 2013. The total revenue increase driven by TIETP has been estimated as \3.4 trillion, with TIETP costs reaching \1.9 trillion. The net gain is an estimated \1.4 trillion (approximately US$1.3 billion), an increase of personal income tax revenue by 4.2%. TIETP also had a positive impact on income redistribution, decreasing Gini coefficients by 0.11 percentage points.

scholarly journals Income taxation of self-employed attorney and peculiarities of single social contribution payment

1970 ◽  
pp. 112-116
Author(s):  
Olena Hedziuk
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Income Taxation ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Tax Law ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Taxable Income ◽  
Social Contribution

 The paper is designed to present the legal regulation of income taxation of self-employed attorney. For tax purposes, the attorney who carries out the activity is an individually self-employed person, namely, a person who pursues an independent professional activity.      An individual who intends to pursue independent professional activity is obliged to register with the supervisory authorities at their place of residence as self-employed persons. If a person is registered as an entrepreneur and at the same time this person carries out an independent professional activity, such an individual is accounted for the controlling bodies as an entrepreneur with a sign of pursuing the independent professional activity.       Income received during the calendar year from conducting independent professional activity is taxed on the personal income tax at the rate of 18%. Taxable income is the cumulative net income, that is the difference between the income and the documented expenses required to pursue a certain type of independent professional activity. Individuals engaged in an independent professional activity are obliged to keep records of income and expenses from such activity.       In addition to the personal income tax, attorneys also pay a military levy and a single social contribution.      Discussion issues in the enforcement of tax law were distinguished: the issue of taking into account expenses in determining taxable income for taxation of income received by an attorney, as well as problem of payment of the single social contribution in the case of combining business activity and independent professional activity. In this situation, the tax authorities believe that the taxpayer must pay a single social contribution twice as an entrepreneur and as a person who provides independent professional activity. Courts often support taxpayers and confirm that a person should only pay a single social contribution as an entrepreneur. Tax authorities’ explanations remain unchanged.     To avoid double taxation and to ensure the implementation of the principles of tax law, in our opinion, this issue needs attention from the tax authorities and an up-to-date analysis tax legislation.

scholarly journals Personal income tax reform in Latvia: assessment of effect

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larisa Bule ◽  
Līga Leitāne ◽  
Kristīne Rozīte
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
State Revenue ◽  
Normative Concepts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Income Tax Reform

Personal income tax (PIT) policy in Latvia has been changed significantly in 2018 with the aim to reduce the tax burden and increase the income of working population by amending progressive tax rates and increasing the non-taxable minimum and minimum wage. Purpose − the aim of this study is to estimate the impact of PIT reform by assessing the effect of implementation of non-taxable minimum, deductions and substantiated spending on the dynamics of income and tax administration efficiency. Research methodology − PIT theoretic and normative concepts have been analyzed; unpublished data on actual wages in 2015−2018 provided by Latvian State Revenue Service and State Social Insurance Agency have been estimated. Findings − the main conclusion of this study is that the aim of the reform has not been achieved: income inequality hasn’t been reduced, an increase of income has been irrelevant, the gains from the reform have become unobtainable for the most unprotected groups because of the insufficient level of income. The implementation of the differentiated non-taxable minimum has generated PIT debts and higher administrative burden. Practical implications − the study may be implemented in case of progressive PIT for the reassessment of the tax framework and its future development. Originality/Value − this study is original, the actual effect of PIT reform in Latvia previously hasn’t been analyzed.

scholarly journals Exemption of Fiscal Exit Tax: Its Impact on International Flights and Tax Revenue

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Joko Mariyono
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Government Revenue ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Econometric Methods ◽  
Asean Member ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Fiscal tariff is considered as personal income tax, collected in advance when adult people who have been staying in Indonesia for more than 183 days go overseas. The magnitude of tariff was sometime much greater than the airfare itself, particularly for international flight to ASEAN member countries. This study aims to measure the impact of elimination of fiscal tariff applied to international flight passenger departing from Indonesia. Potential loss in government revenue from income tax and number of international passengers were analyzed. This study used descriptive and econometric methods. Annual and monthly time series data were collected for publication of the Indonesian Statistical Agency and Central Bank of Indonesia during the periods 2008-2012. The results show that the elimination of fiscal tariff did not affect the government revenue resulting from personal income tax. The impact of tariff elimination was to increase the rate in number of passengers going overseas.

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