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Proposal of Usage Offshore Structure to Optimize the Tax Burden of Business Entity
Tomášek, Lukáš ; Svoboda, Jakub (referee) ; Kopřiva, Jan (advisor)
This thesis focuses on the use of destinations with moderate rate of corporate tax to reduce the tax burden of the business entity. It contains defined context and fundamental concepts and there is also an analysis of the current state of offshore business and restrictions aimed against its abuse. Thesis contains draft of business structure that ensures reduction of tax burden of the business entity, and which is followed by a definition of the benefits and risks of its application.
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Tax Havens and their Utilization
Malý, Zdeněk ; Dubový, Roman (referee) ; Kopřiva, Jan (advisor)
This bachelor thesis describes the topic of tax havens and their usage. Further it describes issues of international tax planning. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first one, theoretical, explains basic concepts of this issue. Analytical part follows with description of present state of taxation in selected countries. The last section of this thesis shows some uses of tax havens and whether or not it offers tax advantages.
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Don't pay taxes, save your money!
Bradáč, Michal ; Kemény, Irena (advisor) ; Gregor, Martin (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Don't Pay Taxes, Save Your Money!" focuses on the impact of the existence of tax havens on private and public sector. On the theoretical level, it shows the attractivity of tax havens for sufficiently large firms that can afford to pay costs of tax planning and profit manipulations. On the empirical level, it shows that tax havens are really the most successful jurisdictions in attracting foreign investors. In the end, two models of tax competition are introduced in order to describe the importance of tax competition for the whole economy. Keywords:Tax Haven, Tax Avoidance, Tax Competition
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Treasure islands: the economic analysis of tax havens
Filip, Ondřej ; Janský, Petr (advisor) ; Adam, Tomáš (referee)
Bachelor Thesis Abstract This thesis strives to introduce a wider notion of tax havens. We alter a traditional paradigm by investigating tax havens' influence on economic performance of other countries. The first part of the thesis copes with issues implied by the absence of a suitable tax haven's definition which results in compiling an inclusive list of havens. Subsequently, we present a data-based description of the identified tax havens with an emphasis on several widely-held assertions. The second part delivers an empirical analysis. It illustrates the role of tax havens as financial intermediaries. We examined whether the volumes of capital flows between non-havens and tax havens correspond to the sizes of the counterpart economies and to their mutual distance. Foremost, we found intensified capital flows between tax havens and large non-haven countries in their close proximity. The thesis concludes by a discussion of results.
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Determinants of the Demand for Tax Haven Operations: Empirical Evidence from the Czech Republic
Burianová, Markéta ; Janský, Petr (advisor) ; Švarcová, Natálie (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to explore the firm-specific determinants of the demand for tax haven operations by Czech firms. Our objective is to better understand the firms' incentives for tax haven use, and furthermore whether there exists cross-haven heterogeneity in those incentives. The thesis examines the firms' tax haven investment behaviour by analysing firm-level data for 15,530 Czech firms for year 2013. To the extent of our knowledge, this has been the first research of its kind devoted to Czech firms. The evidence suggests that larger, more profitable firms with larger international presence are most likely to use tax havens. The analysis also indicates that higher firm indebtedness is associated with greater likelihood of establishing tax haven operations. This would suggest Czech firms engage in profit shifting through the use of debt financing. Furthermore, service firms were found to be more likely to use tax havens than manufacturing firms. This contrasts with previous research where R&D intensity was a leading indicator of tax haven use. Additionally, we found significant cross-haven heterogeneity in the determinants, particularly in the sector-specific characteristics. In our sample, service firms favoured Cyprus and the Netherlands, while manufacturing firms preferred Luxembourg...
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Firms and Tax Havens: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Burianová, Markéta ; Janský, Petr (advisor) ; Paulus, Michal (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to provide a description of the phenomenon of tax havens in relation to the Czech Republic. The thesis begins with description of theoretical background of the problem. It provides definition, characteristics, and an overview of main uses of tax havens by Czech firms. This part is followed by analysis of Czech firms controlled from tax havens in order to determine what type of firms is most often leaving the Czech Republic. The analysis showed the largest interest from limited liability companies and companies operating in real estate. The next part of the thesis presents an estimate of tax loss arising from tax haven activities of Czech subjects. It is the first estimate of this kind for the Czech Republic. The resulting tax loss is estimated to be 21 billion CZK per year, which equals to approximately 10% of annual tax revenue from corporate and personal income tax. The thesis is concluded with an overview of counter-measures that are taken worldwide and in the Czech Republic as means of combating the rising phenomenon of tax havens.
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The most advantageous tax havens for athletes
Šebák, Marek ; Štědroň, Bohumír (advisor) ; Ruda, Tomáš (referee)
Title: The most advantageous tax havens for athletes. Objectives: The aim of the bachelor thesis is to determine the most advantageous tax haven that could be used as tax relief by some of the top athletes from Czech Republic. The taxation of an athlete's income in Czech Republic will be compared with taxation in four other countries, which are classified as the most sought-after tax havens in the world. The results of the bachelor thesis will also include the financial expenses associated with the change of the athlete's residency to a specific tax haven. Methods: The athlete has been chosen with a help of a case study, which provided an imaginary athlete XY used for the comparison of the selected countries. This brings us to the comparative method, which was used predominantly and which helped to determine the most advantageous tax haven for our athlete XY. Method of document analysis - from printed literature and electronic sources was used as well. This method enabled us to draw important information for the theoretical and practical parts. Results: It is clear from the results of the work that the most advantageous tax haven for top athletes are the Cayman Islands. In the ten-year horizon, the change of residence, after meeting all the requirements for its acquisition, will start to pay off...
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Optimalization of Tax Burden of the Concern
Pereslenyiová, Michaela ; Hudcová, Dagmar (referee) ; Kopřiva, Jan (advisor)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to optimize the concern in terms of taxes. Model situations should point to tax optimization by moving business to tax havens. Diploma thesis deals particularly different taxation of concern in tax havens. The result of the work will be a proposal and recommendations for the establishment of a company in a tax haven.
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Country-by-country Reporting Data of Firms in Extractive Industries
Batíková, Marta ; Janský, Petr (advisor) ; Poláková, Nikol (referee)
This thesis studies the mandatorily published data of companies in extractive industries, listing their payments to governments by types and countries, where the payments were paid. The first aspect of the thesis contains a comparison with the data describing the same phenomenon available before these mandatory reports were published and compares the competitiveness of extractive industries on national markets using the concentration Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. Then it estimates by different approaches the effect of tax rate and country's macroeconomic indicators on payments paid by companies from extractive industries and sum of payments collected by the government from the extractive sector. The econometric analyses using the panel data with significant results suggest that the corporate income tax has a negative parabolic effect on the elasticity of all types of payments summed by countries as well as on the elasticity of the collected taxes from the extractive industries.
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Who wins and who loses due to financial secrecy? The Net Bilateral Financial Secrecy Index.
Kamenická, Lucie ; Palanský, Miroslav (advisor) ; Štěpánek, Martin (referee)
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