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Tax havens and their uses in international tax planning
Martínek, Ondřej ; Hraba, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Borkovec, Aleš (referee)
Diplomová práce Ondřej Martínek Abstract Tax havens are thorn in the eye of the OECD countries, nonetheless they emerged originally on europian soil and on the ruins of british empire. Classical accusation argues, the tax havens are supposed to earn on luring foreign capital that is enabled to evade taxation and by that they breach the balance of national budgets and tax justice in developed countries, enwiden social imbalance and speed up global tax competition. There are many forms of tax avoidance via tax havens: transfer pricing, holding structures, trusts, foundations or offshore business. Although many of these forms remain illegal, for certain other ones the states are the ones responsible for - e.g. generous web of double tax treaties. Global shortage to national budgets is estimated at around 3% of total revenues. Tax competition exists and global tax rates are in fact decreasing, however national tax revenues are, in absolute terms, rising. Because of this ambiguous effect on global economy and near impossibility to distinguish "real" tax havens, the developed countries are choosing rather careful policy to the tax havens and concentrate on negotiations and concluding TIEA's.
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Taxation of sportsmen's income from the sport activities with the personal income tax
Vybíral, Roman ; Boháč, Radim (advisor) ; Kohajda, Michael (referee)
The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the taxation of the Czech resident sportsmen's income. The thesis is divided, except for the introduction and conclusion, into five chapters. The first chapter deals with terms "sport" and "sportsman" and it explains them to readers. The second chapter is concerned with defining the status of sportsmen from the perspective of the Czech law, laws of some other European states and also from the perspective of the Court of Justice of the European Union. The third chapter deals with the taxation of income from sport activities from the sources in the Czech Republic and it's most important part is dealing with the status of professional sportsman as an employee and self-employed person. Chapter Four is concerned with the taxation of income in the form of sport competitions prices. The last chapter deals with issues of international taxation of income from the sources from abroad.
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Social aspects of taxes
Loubková, Eliška ; Marková, Hana (advisor) ; Kohajda, Michael (referee)
Title of thesis is "Social aspects of taxes." The main objective of this study is to characterize the various social aspects that can be found in the Czech legal system. The work is divided into several parts. The first part contains the definition of basic concepts such as social aspect, tax and its functions, the main attention is paid to the redistributive function of taxation together with an explanation of what causes uneven distribution of income. The first part includes the description of the rates, particularly progressive tax rate. The first part is completed by a definition of a flat tax. The second part deals with the tax principles of legality, efficiency, and different views on tax fairness and its two main principles, the principle of utility and welfare. The second part also concludes chapter devoted to the description of a reasonable tax rate. The third part describes the various types of social aspects, ie. exemption from tax object, full and partial exemptions, standard and non-standard deductions and tax credits. A brief overview of taxes that constitutes the tax system in the Czech Republic is ranked at the end of the third parts. The last part of my work deals with social aspects, which can be found in taxes. The thesis is completed by a summary of the social aspects and outline...
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Smoking - impact on the state budget and its fair taxation
Hait, Pavel ; Mikolášek, Jakub (advisor) ; Mertlík, Pavel (referee)
The paper addresses the impact of smoking in the Czech Republic in 2009. The aim is to describe the current facts and trends of tobacco consumption, assess the mortality attributable to smoking, compute its financial impact on the Czech state budget, evaluate the transmission of tax changes into the retail price of cigarettes, assess consumer price elasticity for cigarettes, and compute a fair excise tax on cigarettes for the Czech Republic as well as the tax which would maximise the benefits of smoking for the state budget. For our purposes, we define fairness as a situation in which there is no net redistribution of state budget funds between two groups of citizens: non-smokers and smokers. Smokers create benefits (for example, savings on pensions due to their earlier deaths) and costs (for instance, increased health care costs) for the state budget. We search for a tax rate that would balance smoking-associated costs and benefits. Furthermore, we also compute the tax which would maximise net revenues from smoking to the government. We realised these findings for the Czech Republic, 2009: we observed that there were 22,013 deaths attributable to smoking. About 2.281 billion cigarettes were sold illegally. The costs to the state budget caused by smoking were estimated to 30,547 million CZK,...
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Taxation of income from employment
Křížová, Alžběta ; Karfíková, Marie (advisor) ; Vybíral, Roman (referee)
Taxation of income from employment This diploma thesis deals with the system of taxation of income tax. First part of this work describes important terms necessary for understanding the tax system. Systematically at first I describe the term of tax, than I describe the structural elements of tax, income tax in general and after that I can describe the taxation of income from employment. This thesis tries to comprehensively deal with all institutes, whose knowledge is important for the right calculation of the tax and the right tax payment. Considerable space in this work dedicates to the tax base and the effective tax rate. After describing what I have mentioned above, this thesis aims to assess the tax system and think about some other solutions. This thesis comes with a specific proposal in the area of defining the tax base. The conclusion of this thesis is that the tax system is very complicated. If we would like to make it easier, it is necessary to ask ourselves what should be the goal of the changes. Whether the result should be the same tax revenue, covered by the system complexity, simplifying the system and lower tax revenue, or maintaining the current tax revenue and sincere effort to simplify the system. Furthermore the thesis points out the fact, that schools should include some basic tax...
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International and national aspects of double taxation
Rogová, Tereza ; Novotný, Petr (advisor) ; Vondráčková, Pavlína (referee)
This master's thesis aims to describe legislation of international and national double taxation. Furthermore, this paper deals with the term tax and puts down following questions: what does a tax represent; what is the subject of a tax; who is a resident and who is a non-resident. At the same time the master's thesis focuses on the history of international double taxation, consequences of double taxation and last but not least on the tax avoidance. The master's thesis is comprised of three chapters that are divided into more detailed subchapters. The first chapter deals with a tax as such in the Czech legal system and primarily deals with a tax as the most important source of financing of state budgets because the whole public sector is funded by taxes. Furthermore, it introduces to the issue of double taxation as a negative economic phenomenon for taxpayers and to the methods of the state intervention into a removal of double taxation whether national or international. In general the methods of prevention of double taxation are analyzed. The second chapter describes international treaties about prevention of double taxation. Nowadays taxpayers have a certainty due the international treaties about prevention of double taxation because they have a possibility to get to know the legal regime that will...
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Taxation in the United States and suggestions for Czech tax legislation
Janoutová, Alena ; Láchová, Lenka (advisor) ; Kouba, Tomáš (referee)
My diploma thesis deals with a tax system of the United States of America. The main attention in this thesis is dedicated to a federal taxation in the United States of America, but also a state and a municipal level of taxation.The most important object of this thesis is to analyze a current tax system of USA, which contains my proposals for improvement of the Czech Tax Law e. g. an improvement of tax payment discipline or an enhancing legal certainty of citizens. The conclusion contains a complete assessment of discovered findings. On the basis of such the diploma thesis, the reader should acquire a complex insight into the United States tax system.
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Excise taxes in the Czech Republic and in selected OECD countries and their impact on resource coverage of the state budget in the years 2007-2012
Dík, Lukáš ; Vostrovská, Zdenka (advisor) ; Hájek, Jan (referee)
The thesis deals with the issue of excise taxes in the Czech Republic and in selected OECD countries over the period 2007-2012 and their impact on resource coverage of the state budget. The theoretical part consists of the basic concepts relating to taxes, their basic structure, including the advantages and disadvantages of various groups of taxes. Main part of this thesis is the analysis of excise taxes in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany and the Slovakia which leads to a comparison between these countries. The hypothesis was that the Czech Republic levied excise few. Since this hypothesis is confirmed, the thesis contains a proposal for amendment in excise taxes which of the three possible options is chosen variant of the introduction of new taxes, the taxes on sweets. This part is undoubtedly the greatest benefit of the whole thesis. The work assumes that the introduction of this tax has had a positive impact on the state budget of 6-7 billion Czech crowns.
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Electronic records of sales as a tool to eliminate tax evasion
Bělinová, Marcela ; Pikola, Pavel (advisor)
This thesis deals with the prevention of evasion of tax control implementation instruments, namely the introduction of electronic evidence in revenues. The first part defines basic terms as tax, inspection tool, the Tax Code, tax compliance and more. There is mentioned view of tax administration in terms of legislation. Then describes the tools for eliminating tax evasion, zoom their operating principles of electronic evidence in sales in the Czech Republic. Definition of the problem, the reasons for introducing targets entities required to record sales, the subject of electronic evidence in revenues, mandatory data sanctions measures, the impact on businesses and the public budget. Work is in its second part deals with the evaluation of electronic evidence in revenues as a tool for professional elimination of tax evasion in the Czech Republic, Evaluation of Options Croatian model as a model for the introduction of evidence of sales in the Czech Republic. Based on information mapping pozice Czech Republic
Croatia to introduce the EET This will also assess the suitability or otherwise of the election of Croatia as a model for the introduction of EET in the Czech Republic.
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Agricultural land evaluation for taxation purposes: Analysis and projet
Dubánková, Helena ; Boučková, Bohuslava (advisor) ; Drahomíra, Drahomíra (referee)
The thesis is focused on the evaluation of agricultural land for the tax purposes and at the impact of the official price of agricultural land on the tax level. The thesis is divided in two parts. The first part analyses the quantitative and qualitative structure of agricultural land, the theory of the agricultural land evaluation by the market and official land price and to the description of the basic types of taxes, which use the official agricultural land price as the tax base. In the second part of the thesis, the main attention is given to the comparison of the tax amount from the acquisition of real estate in relation to agricultural land, the way of its utilisation and location and to the comparison of real estate tax level regarding agricultural land, when using as the tax base the official land price according to the BSEU and the market price, using a case study.
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