Ending the Tax Haven Scandals

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1850175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert T. Kudrle
Keyword(s):  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Tax Avoidance ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Corporate Tax ◽  
Formula Apportionment ◽  
Automatic Information ◽  
Tax Haven ◽  
The World ◽  
Taking Action

States around the world appear more determined than ever to end tax haven abuse. The new U.S. administration, for example, is taking action against both major tax haven problems: corporation income tax avoidance and personal income tax evasion. Some progress may be made. This essay argues, however, that only radically new policy will likely suffice either to shore up corporate tax revenues or to sharply diminish evasion. Global formula apportionment is needed if the corporate income tax is to be preserved, and only a combination of automatic information sharing among governments and source withholding can stamp out evasion. As in most areas of international economic policy, U.S. leadership is essential.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN PAJAK PENGHASILAN ORANG PRIBADI DARI PERDAGANGAN VALUTA ASING SECARA ONLINE YANG MENGGUNAKAN BROKER LUAR NEGERI

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-289
Author(s):  
Zuhdi Arman ◽  
Lenny Husna
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Tax Avoidance ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Foreign Exchange Trading

Foreign exchange trading is one of the most popular businesses in the world, including the Indonesian people. The income generated from an Indonesian trader will certainly raise an aspect of Income Tax that must be fulfilled. This study aims to analyze the application of personal income tax and to determine the form of tax avoidance that can occur in relation to online foreign exchange trading using foreign brokers. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative, data collection is done by means of in-depth interviews, observation and documentation, informant selection techniques with purposive sampling, data analysis techniques performed by data reduction, data presentation and drawing conclusions. The result of this research is the application of personal income tax on personal traders (taxpayers) which is carried out by means of a self-assessment system with the expectation of voluntary compliance in which the taxpayer must self-report the tax owed at the end of the year. Due to the lack of supervision over the implementation of the self assessment system, and online forex trading transactions are carried out fully online, taxpayers have a very big opportunity to do tax evasion. In the application of individual PPh, there are also several obstacles that occur both from the side of the taxpayer itself and from the side of the government.

scholarly journals Where Has The Currency Gone? And Why? The Underground Economy And Personal Income Tax Evasion In The U.S., 1970-2008

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-52
Author(s):  
Richard J. Cebula
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Tax Avoidance ◽  
Underground Economy ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Tax Returns ◽  
Federal Income Tax ◽  
The U.S

Unaccounted for currency in the U.S. is argued to reflect the presence of widespread income tax evasion. This empirical study seeks to identify determinants of the underground economy in the U.S. in the form of federal personal income tax evasion over the period 1970-2008. In this study, we use the most recent data available on personal income tax evasion, data that are derived from the General Currency Ratio Model and measured in the form of the ratio of unreported AGI (adjusted gross income) to reported AGI. Other studies of federal income tax evasion for the U.S. are dated and do not use data this current. It is found that personal income tax evasion was an increasing function of the maximum marginal federal personal income tax rate, the percentage of federal personal income tax returns characterized by itemized deductions, and unpopular military engagements, in this case, the War in Iraq, and a decreasing function of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (during its first two years of being implemented), the ratio of the tax free interest rate yield on high grade municipals to the interest rate yield on ten year Treasury notes (as a measure of the incentive effect of a better return to tax avoidance, which is legal), and higher audit rates of filed federal income tax returns (as a measure of risk from tax evasion) by IRS personnel.

scholarly journals Covid-19 and corporate tax avoidance: Measuring long-run tax burdens as an alternative bailout test

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-244
Author(s):  
Subagio Efendi
Keyword(s):  
Financial Aid ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Tax Avoidance ◽  
Tax Compliance ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Corporate Tax ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Tax Returns ◽  
Avoidance Measures

This study fills the gap in the tax authority’s Covid-19 financial aid verifications by examining, and nominating, Long-run ETR (Dyreng et al., 2008) as the better corporate tax avoidance measure in excluding tax evader firms from the broad stimulus programs. Analysing confidential tax returns of 4,752 largest firms (32,120 firm-years) in Indonesia over 2009 to 2017 periods, this study found 18.12 percent of total sample firms is able to retain its Long-run ETR below 10 percent, which indicates continual tax avoidance activities by these firms during observation periods. Moreover, applying univariate and multivariate Ordinary Least Squares and Panel Data estimations, this study reveals, relative to other tax avoidance measures, Lagged Cash ETR (Lisowsky, 2010; Lisowsky et al., 2013) present the most consistent reliability in predicting long-run income tax burdens. Thus, this study asserts, in the conditions of computing Long-run ETR is costly and impractical (i.e. because of data unavailability), tax authority and policymakers can directly analyse firms’ Lagged Cash ETR to gauge their long-run income tax burdens and tax compliance behaviours prior the economic downturn. 

scholarly journals Personal Income Tax Compliance at the Regional Level: The Role of Persistence, Neighborhood, and Decentralization

2020 ◽  
pp. 016001762094281
Author(s):  
Julio López-Laborda ◽  
Jaime Vallés-Giménez ◽  
Anabel Zárate-Marco
Keyword(s):  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Fiscal Decentralization ◽  
Tax Compliance ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Institutional Variables ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Individual

This article quantifies personal income tax compliance by regions for the first time in Spain and identifies the factors explaining differences in tax compliance between regions, an aspect that has scarcely been analyzed in the literature. To this end, and in addition to the dynamic and spatial components considered by Alm and Yunus, this article considers the variables included in the classical tax evasion model of Allingham and Sandmo, as well as tax morale and political-institutional variables, including those linked to the country’s fiscal decentralization. The results obtained confirm, on one hand, those reached in the very extensive literature studying tax evasion from the individual perspective (including the importance of the dynamic element) and, on the other, the relevance of the spatial component in explaining tax compliance, so that greater or lesser tax compliance is partly explained by factors such as the tax behavior of neighbors or how those neighbors are treated by the public sector.

scholarly journals Income Tax Avoidance and Evasion

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 815-837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duccio Gamannossi degl’Innocenti ◽  
Matthew D. Rablen
Keyword(s):  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Tax Avoidance ◽  
Expected Return ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Increasing Function ◽  
Reported Income

We characterize optimal individual tax evasion and avoidance when taxpayers “narrow bracket” the joint avoidance/evasion decision by exhausting all gainful methods for legal avoidance before choosing whether or not also to evade illegally. We find that (1) evasion is an increasing function of the audit probability when the latter is low enough, yet tax avoidance is always decreasing in the probability of audit; (2) an analogous finding to the so-called Yitzhaki puzzle for evasion also holds for tax avoidance—an increase in the tax rate decreases the level of avoided income and the level of avoided tax; and (3) that, holding constant the expected return to evasion, it is not always the case that the combined loss of reported income due to avoidance and evasion can be stemmed by increasing the fine rate and decreasing the audit probability.

Tax evasion in Spanish Personal Income Tax by income sources, 2005–2008: from the synthetic to the dual tax

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Félix Domínguez-Barrero ◽  
Julio López-Laborda ◽  
Fernando Rodrigo-Sauco
Keyword(s):  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Income Sources

Tax Competition through Tax Evasion / Steuerwettbewerb über Steuerhinterziehung

2001 ◽  
Vol 221 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Beckmann
Keyword(s):  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Tax Competition ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Capital Income ◽  
The Core ◽  
Evasion Game ◽  
Tax Haven ◽  
Tax Harmonisation ◽  
Competitive Behaviour

SummaryIn the present paper, I analyse the competitive behaviour of benevolent governments in the presence of (capital) income tax evasion when information exchange is not possible. My approach is to introduce a cost of evasion function into an otherwise standard tax competition model and to explore three variants of the basic tax competition cum evasion game.Two distinct justifications for tax harmonisation emerge. First, harmonisation of taxation at the source can be supported with the usual spill-over argument that is at the core of the tax competition literature. This kind of argument does not apply to the harmonisation of residence-based taxes, however. Second, in a strategic situation where a tax haven facilitates tax evasion by citizens of the rest of the world, countries may find it to their advantage to coordinate their residence-based tax policies as well.

scholarly journals Measurement of Effectiveness of Personal Income Tax in the Tax System of the Czech Republic

2014 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Břetislav Andrlík
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Public Budget ◽  
Tax System ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Costs ◽  
The World

This article deals with the issues of effectiveness of personal income tax in the Czech Republic. The personal income tax in the Czech Republic, referred to as the tax on income of natural persons, represents a significant part of the public budget revenue (23.35% of all tax revenues in 2012). One of the principles of a good tax system is the principle of its effectiveness. The effectiveness of a particular tax is measured by various methods. The theory distinguishes between two types of costs expended on the collection of taxes, i. e. administrative costs (direct or indirect) and excessive tax burden. In the case of direct administrative costs the measurement compares the total volume of a particular tax revenue with the costs of its collection. The amount of the tax levied is thus not a net income of the public budget, due to the fact that it must be reduced by the costs of the public sector which are necessary for obtaining such amount. In this contribution we shall focus on the measurement of direct administrative costs. The measurement of effectiveness of income tax on natural persons is performed with the use of the full-time equivalent (FTE) method, which is based on the classification of revenue authorities staff according to their jobs and on the determination of conversion coefficients in order to identify costs related to the collection of a particular tax. A separate part of the article deals with measurements of tax system effectiveness in the international scope. We cite an important international study, "Paying Taxes 2013: The Global Picture", annually prepared by the World Bank and PricewaterhouseCoopers, which analyses demands of tax systems in different countries of the world.

scholarly journals The Effect of Public Share Ownership on Tax Evasion: Study on Companies Listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange Between 2008-2011

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ikbal Abdullah ◽  
Andi Chairil Furqan ◽  
Ni Made Suwitri Parwati ◽  
Asmanurhidayani Asmanurhidayani
Keyword(s):  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Tax Avoidance ◽  
Public Ownership ◽  
Corporate Tax ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
Share Ownership ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Public Share

Increasing the concentration of ownership and control of public companies in Indonesia is more likely to increase the likelihood of earnings management practices through tax avoidance. The high percentage of concentrated ownership has encouraged the government and capital market regulators to more broadly promote regulations related to tax incentives and public ownership in order to encourage more transparent practices. This study aims to analyze the policy of public ownership of tax avoidance conducted by Indonesian public companies, specifically after the regulation of Government Regulation No. 81 of 2007 concerning Reduction of Income Tax Rates for Domestic Corporate Taxpayers in the Form of Public Companies, and Minister of Financial Regulation No. 238 / PMK.03 / 2008 concerning Procedures for Implementing and Supervision of Granting Tariff Reductions for Domestic Corporate Taxpayers in the Form of Public Companies. More specifically, this study aims to analyze the impact of public share ownership on tax avoidance by Indonesian public companies. The samples of 320 observations that conducted (firm-years) during 2008-2011. The software that will be used in data analysis is STATA 12. The results showed that the increase in public ownership have a significant effect in improve the practice of corporate tax avoidance, which it is also evidenced by the significant differences in the corporate tax avoidance practices before than after the enactment of these regulations. The findings show that the greater the proportion of public share ownership would result the decreasing number of ETR or ETRC which can be indicated that the greater the practice of corporate tax avoidance. Furthermore, the ROA variable has a negative and significant effect on corporate tax avoidance practices, meaning that the greater the profitability ratio of a company can cause the reported and paid tax burden to decrease.

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