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Comparison of the profit taxation of the legal entities in the tax havens and the Czech Republic
Beťková, Miroslava ; Beneš, Jonáš (advisor) ; Kubátová, Květa (referee)
The aim of my bachelor's thesis is to compare the taxation of profits of legal entities incorporated in tax havens and in the Czech Republic. In the theoretical part, I analyze the characteristics of tax havens and the reasons behind their utilization. The first part also contains the description of the tax-advantaged entities, including the methods used for the international tax planning and the techniques suitable for the transfer of profits. The second part describes the selected tax havens. The third practical part consists of hypothetical examples comparing the implied tax burden in the selected jurisdictions.
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The importance of tax havens
Barouskaya, Yuliya ; Finardi, Savina (advisor) ; Kábelová, Lucie (referee)
Tax optimization of a business is one of the biggest issues of today's economic world. This bachelor thesis deals with tax havens and with the study of both the theory of tax havens, the reasons for their usage and the existing common position on their existence, as well as their practical advantages and disadvantages. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter presents the history and development of tax havens in the world, the criticism and support of such jurisdictions, usually used by medium-sized entrepreneurs, and three legal commonly used forms of business in tax havens. The second chapter approaches three specific jurisdictions, in particular, the British Virgin Islands, Cyprus and the Netherlands. The third chapter shows practical examples of how to use tax havens and addresses whether the cost of international tax planning can influence a decision-making process of the entity and whether tax optimization can only be used after exceeding a certain annual turnover threshold. This paper also shows that international tax planning is not a financial benefit for small businesses and that not any type of tax optimization can be used regardless of the type of business activity provided.
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The benefits and ways of utilizing a company in a tax haven
Horník, David ; Smrčka, Luboš (advisor) ; Schönfeld, Jaroslav (referee)
The Master thesis deals with the analysis of tax havens, their origin and operating mechanisms. The thesis will elaborately describe individual entities advantaged in terms of taxes and specific ways of using offshore and onshore centers in order to achieve tax optimization, ownership anonymity, property protection or any other partial goal. The first part is theoretical and some basic terms related to this topic are defined in it. In the second part, the practical use of tax havens is discussed. In the first chapter, I described four selected jurisdictions in detail, and in the second and third chapters, I specifically illustrated how a company founded in an appropriately chosen tax haven can be utilized in achieving a predetermined goal.
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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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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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Factors influencing the origin and evolution of the tax havens
Ulrich, Tomáš ; Janský, Petr (advisor) ; Cingl, Lubomír (referee)
This thesis examines tax havens, specifically it searches for factors which influence the probability that a given country becomes tax haven. Nowadays there are roughly 40 tax havens all over the world. The main target of this thesis is to find out what effects does the demographic, economic and geographic indicators have on their ex- istence. By using the extensive dataset for the period of 6 years we illustrate the time development and possible trends. With the help of several standard regression methods we confirmed the already existing hypothesis that tax havens are inclined to be small and more affluent jurisdictions. Moreover, the results indicate that the quality of governance in tax havens is substantially higher than in other countries. This is not only a short-term phenomenon, it showed to be valid for a longer time period. The discovered outcomes are statistically significant and robust to the use of other relevant variables. Tax havens also scores much better on the measures of corruption than other countries. Our conclusions help to clarify the causes why certain jurisdictions become tax havens, and at the same time they provide recom- mendations for the concerning economic policy. Keywords tax haven, government index, probit model, regression analysis. 1
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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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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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Tax Havens
Němec, Pavel ; Venhoda, Ondřej (referee) ; Kopřiva, Jan (advisor)
The thesis deals with the issue of tax optimization through the tax havens. The first part of this thesis contains definitions of the key terms related to the issue. The second part deals with the history of tax havens and describes the current fights against them. The particular countries which belong to the tax havens are concretely analyzed in the next part of this thesis. The countries are organized into the groups by the possibility of using them in specific types of business in the fourth part.
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