scholarly journals MODERN TRANSFORMATION AND PROBLEMATIC ASPECTS OF TAXATION OF THE FINANCIAL RESULTS OF INSURERS IN UKRAINE

2017 ◽  
pp. 19-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleksandr KVASOVSKYI ◽  
Mykola STETSKO
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Pension Insurance ◽  
Effective Tax Rate ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Direct Taxation ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Before And After

Introduction. Today the problem of establishing an effective taxation technology of domestic insurers' financial results has not been finally solved. That technology would ensure achieving fiscal objectives of budget revenues improvement and the implementation of the regulatory capacity of the tax regime to enhance the development of the insurance market in Ukraine on the principles of transparency and legitimacy of the business. Purpose. The purpose of the article is critical analysis of recent transformations in the method of taxation of the financial performance of insurance companies in Ukraine, assessment of their impact on the dynamics of national insurance organizations budget revenues in recent years, a clear identification of legal conflicts and problematic aspects of the insurers' profit and income tax collecting procedures with a view to their elimination. Results. The article looks into the major differences in innovation and methodological approaches to taxation of the financial performance of domestic insurers before and after January 1, 2015. The work characterizes the dynamics of absolute and relative indicators of income tax on profits from insurance companies to the consolidated budget of Ukraine in 2012-2016 (compared to banks) from a position of impact of changes in tax regime for insurers. The research also revealed a number of legal contradictions and problematic issues in the current procedure for determining taxable profits of insurance organizations in the consideration of tax differences, calculating the income tax of taxable item in the neglecting of the revenues and transmission of insurance payments (contributions, premiums) for reinsurance operations and so on. Conclusion. A number of recommendations to improve the technology of direct taxation of insurance companies' corporate income tax and indirect taxes on insurance premiums, namely: clear distinction of mentioned fiscal duties; revision of the legal framework regarding the collection of insurers’ income tax (detailed definition of the list of costs for the calculation of financial results of the insurer before tax, establishing a list and approval of scientifically based methods of calculating insurance reserves for the calculation of taxable income, specification of legal provisions regarding taxation of insurance companies that specialize in life insurance, and longterm pension insurance); the introduction of preferential tax treatment of small profit insurance organizations through the establishment of progressive tax rates; gradual reduction of the effective tax rate for insurance companies.

Taxation in a mixed economy: the case of China

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davidson Sinclair ◽  
Larry Li
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Corporate Income Tax ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Government Ownership ◽  
Effective Tax Rate ◽  
Effective Tax Rates ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
For Profit

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how Chinese firms’ ownership structure is related to their effective tax rate. The People’s Republic of China provides an interesting environment to examine the corporate income tax. Government has significant ownership stakes in the for-profit economy and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are liable to the corporate income tax. This is very different to most other economies where SOE tends to dominate the not-for-profit economy and pays no corporate income tax. Government ownership also varies between the central government and local government in addition to state asset management bureaus. This provides a rich institutional background to examining the corporate income tax. Design/methodology/approach A panel data analysis approach is used to examine relationship between ownership structure and effective tax rates of all public firms in China from 1999 to 2009. Findings The authors report that effective tax rates do appear to vary across the ownership types, but that SOEs pay a statistically higher effective tax rate than to non-state-owned. In addition, local government owned SOE pay higher effective tax rates than central government and SAMB owned SOE. The authors also investigate Zimmerman’s (1983) political cost hypothesis. Unfortunately, these results are econometrically fragile with the statistical significance of those results varying by empirical technique. Originality/value This paper provides insight into government ownership and taxation in China.

scholarly journals Victory Tax: A Holistic Income Tax System

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 1492
Author(s):  
Donald J. Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
The United States ◽  
Effective Tax Rate ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Single Tax ◽  
Government Transfer ◽  
Log Normal

How can an income tax system be designed to exploit human nature and a free market to create a poverty free society, while balancing budgets without disproportional tax burdens? Such a tax system, with universal character, is deduced from the following guiding principles: (1) a single tax rate applies to all income types and levels; (2) the tax rate adjusts to satisfy budget projections; (3) government transfer only supplements the income of households with self-generated income below the poverty line; (4) deductions for basic living expenses, itemized investments and capital losses are allowed; (5) deductions cannot be applied to government transfer. A general framework emerges with three parameters that determine a minimum allowed tax deduction, a maximum allowed itemized deduction, and a maximum deduction defined by income percentage. An income distribution that mimics the United States, and a series of log-normal distributions are considered to quantitatively compare detailed characteristics of this tax system to progressive and flat tax systems. To minimize government dependency while maximizing after-tax income, the effective tax rate (ETR) as a function of income percentile takes the shape of the letter, V, inspiring the name victory tax, where the middle class has the lowest ETR.

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.

Strategic Choice of Presentation Format: The Case of ETR Reconciliations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Chychyla ◽  
Diana Falsetta ◽  
Sundaresh Ramnath
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Strategic Choice ◽  
Presentation Format ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Effective Tax Rate ◽  
Effective Tax Rates ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Explicit Mention ◽  
Disclosure Strategy ◽  
Minimize Costs

To minimize costs related to unfavorable perceptions of their tax-related activities, firms with low effective tax rates (ETR) could avoid, where possible, explicit mentions of their effective tax rates. Using this reputational cost perspective we study an item of required disclosure in the income tax footnote of the 10-K, the ETR reconciliation table, where firms can choose a presentation format that reveals the tax rate (the percentage format) or one that avoids explicit mention of the effective tax rate (the dollar format). We find that firms with low ETRs are 24 percent more likely to use the dollar format, and are also less likely to mention their tax rates elsewhere in their disclosures, consistent with the choice of dollar format reflecting a firm's overall tax disclosure strategy. Analysts' tax expense forecasts are less accurate for dollar format firms, suggesting higher processing costs associated with tax-related disclosures for these firms.

scholarly journals The structure of the deferred income tax and its influence on indicators describing the economic performance of commercial insurance companies

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hana Bohušová ◽  
Eva Vávrová
Keyword(s):  
Structure Analysis ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Insurance Market ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Commercial Insurance ◽  
Insurance System

The main objective of this paper is presentation of findings gathered through an analysis of items that cause deferred income tax in commercial insurance companies in the Czech insurance market. The evaluation of the subject is focused in accordance with the concept of the presented paper as regards structure analysis of the deferred tax, working with a selection of insurers – members of the Czech Insurance Association. We study, document and evaluate the influence of the deferred income tax being related with the given available income, as well as related to the effective income tax rate in a commercial insurance company. This analysis concerns the evaluation of the present-day degree of transformation and approximation of the Czech system of insurance in the process of harmonization with the European insurance system.

scholarly journals EFFECT OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE, AUDIT QUALITY, INDEPENDENT COMMISSIONER ON EFFECTIVE TAX RATE

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Titis Widya Yanti ◽  
Kartika Hendra ◽  
Yuli Chomsatu
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Audit Quality ◽  
Effective Tax Rate ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Performance Audit

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisa pengaruh keuangan, kualitas audit, komisaris independen terhadap tarif pajak efektif.Dengan menggunakan sampel 30 perusahaan real estat & properti yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia tahun 2015 hingga 2018 jumlah data 71 setelah mengumpulkan data outlayer.Metode yang digunakan adalah regresi linier berganda.Hasil analisis ini, variabel ukuran perusahaan tidak mempengaruhi tarif pajak efektif, leverage tidak mempengaruhi tarif pajak efektif, profitabilitas mempengaruhi tarif pajak efektif, rasio intensitas modal tidak mempengaruhi tarif pajak efektif, inventaris rasio modal meningkatkan tarif pajak efektif, kualitas audit meningkatkan tarif pajak efektif, komisaris independen mempengaruhi tarif pajak efektif.Berdasarkan uji koefisien determinasi (R2) sebesar 27.

scholarly journals Effective tax rate for income from employment in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic – a comparative study

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 2005-2020
Author(s):  
Karel Brychta
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
Effective Tax Rate ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
The Individual

The objective of this paper is primarily to compare and describe the development of the effective tax rate (relative tax burden) on the taxpayer earning only income from employment and emoluments in the Czech and Slovak Republics. The reason for choosing this type of income has been its importance in terms of the volume of tax collection in the area of natural persons income tax in the Czech Republic. The actual comparison has been performed for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012. In all cases, the legal status was considered that was valid and effective as of 31. 12. of particular year. Comparison of the effective tax rate was performed not only between the individual countries themselves, but also chronologically for individual countries (the Czech and Slovak Republics, respectively). After the general introduction, the relevant legislation as to incomes from employment and emoluments in both countries is explained. A separate chapter discusses the specification of the applied methodology, within which basic starting points and the simplifications applied are defined. Another part of the paper contains outputs from compiled mathematical models. These are presented in the form of graphic outputs and supplemented with commentary.

Tax Disclosures in Financial and CSR Reporting as a Deterrence for Evasion

2021 ◽  
pp. 397-427
Author(s):  
Fábio Albuquerque ◽  
Julija Cassiano Neves
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Reporting Standards ◽  
Effective Tax Rate ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Tax Aggressiveness ◽  
Financial Reporting Standards ◽  
Csr Reporting

This chapter is about the mandatory disclosure of income tax as required by international financial reporting standards (IFRS) and standards issued by Portuguese regulatory bodies. The chapter also elaborates the most relevant disclosures from the perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Furthermore, it highlights the most influential CSR reporting standards to answer the question that whether these standards adequately address the issue of income tax payment as a factor of CSR. Finally, it also reviews the international and Portuguese theoretical and empirical academic research available about income taxes and related subjects, such as disclosures, corporate tax as a CSR matter, and tax aggressiveness of corporations. Future research may be conducted geographical reporting of income tax expense and its relationship with the effective tax rate (ETR) and other independent variables.

scholarly journals PERILAKU EARNINGS MANAGEMENT DI SEKITAR PERUBAHAN TARIF PAJAK TAHUN 2008

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suyanto Suyanto
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Discretionary Accruals ◽  
Earning Management ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Tax Changes

This study aims to test the level of earning management before and after the income tax rate reduction for 2008 fiscal year. The samples were 21 banking companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange, which has provides loans to SMEs. The analysis using paired samplest-test to test these differences of earning management before and after the income tax rates changes. The results showed that earning management in the high tax rate was higher than in the lower tax rate. This shows that management has responded the income tax rates changes to take the opportunity. Keywords: discretionary accruals, earnings management, corporate income tax changes.

scholarly journals Corporate Income Tax: Effectiveness in the Context of Public Fiscal Policy and Entrepreneurship Support

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-94
Author(s):  
Tetyana Anatoliivna Vasilyeva ◽  
Alina Vysochyna ◽  
Alina Taranchenko
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Consumer Price Index ◽  
The State ◽  
Tax Burden ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
Effective Tax Rate ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
And Performance

The article analyzes the approaches to the definition of the essence and quantitative assessment of the fiscal effectiveness of the income tax. According to the results of the study, it was found out that the fiscal effectiveness of the income tax can be estimated through the indicators of fiscal importance of the tax in the tax revenues of the state (consolidated) budget; tax burden of the tax (in relation to GDP); elasticity of income tax; effective tax rate and tax productivity, etc. The analysis of the dynamics of these indicators over the past few years in Ukraine has allowed us to confirm the low level of fiscal effectiveness and regulatory potential of this tax for Ukraine. One of the possible ways to improve the fiscal effectiveness of the income tax is to use indirect channels of influence, which are represented by the general state of the country's economic development, labor market efficiency, level of welfare of the population, investment attractiveness, and performance of enterprises. The empirical study of determining the most significant channels of influence on the indicators of fiscal effectiveness of the income tax has made it possible to find out: 1) growth of absolute amounts of income tax revenue can be achieved through the use of the investment channel, budget channel and labor market channel; 2) increase in the tax burden on income tax is contributed by the increase in the revenues of the Consolidated Budget, index of industrial producer prices and consumer price index, and increase of the employment rate, while the improvement of the indicators of the overall economic development of the state and investment climate leads to reduction of the tax burden; 3) increase in the fiscal significance of the income tax is contributed by the increase in growth rate of direct investment, level of employment and real wages. Thus, the analysis conducted allowed to identify the channels through which authorities can influence the fiscal effectiveness of the income tax.

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