scholarly journals Can Tax Incentives for Electronic Payments Curtail the Shadow Economy? Korea`s Attempt to Reduce Underreporting in Retail Businesses

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-134
Author(s):  
Sung Myung Jae ◽  
Awasthi Rajul ◽  
Lee Hyung Chul
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Shadow Economy ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Gini Coefficients ◽  
Korean Economy ◽  
Business Income

Increasing tax revenues by curtailing the shadow economy has been a central goal of tax policy and administration in the Republic of Korea since the National Tax Service was established as an independent agency in 1966. This paper examines the Tax Incentives for Electronically Traceable Payments (TIETP) introduced by the Korean tax authorities in 1999 to promote payments made using credit cards, debit cards, and electronic cash receipts in business-to-consumer transactions. TIETP allows wage and salary earners to claim tax deductions for eligible purchases made using electronically traceable payments when they file their year-end income tax return. This tax incentive scheme has greatly contributed to transforming the Korean economy into a cashless economy over the last decade and a half. Card payments as a ratio of Korea`s GDP have ranked highest in the world since 2005, reaching 49% in 2014. TIETP has increased the percentage of business income earners who pay taxes from stagnant at around 30% up to the late 1990s to approximately 80% at present. The effective personal income tax rate for business income followed a continuous upward trend from 3.4% in 1998 to 6.3% in 2013. The total revenue increase driven by TIETP has been estimated as \3.4 trillion, with TIETP costs reaching \1.9 trillion. The net gain is an estimated \1.4 trillion (approximately US$1.3 billion), an increase of personal income tax revenue by 4.2%. TIETP also had a positive impact on income redistribution, decreasing Gini coefficients by 0.11 percentage points.

scholarly journals Penyesuaian Lapisan dan Tarif PPh Orang Pribadi: Agresif atau Progresif?

Owner ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 709-721
Author(s):  
Kalyana Mitta Kristanti
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Tax Harmonization ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Government

In 2022, Indonesia would apply changes in tax brackets and rates for personal income tax. This adjustment is based on the Article 17 Paragraph 1 Tax Harmonization Law Number 7 of 2021. The government tries to accommodate the needs of the community through formulating process of this regulation. In particular, it provides convenience to the lower-middle income community and encourages an even distribution of income. People belonging to the high wealth income will be subject to the highest tariffs that have just been set through this law. Through a qualitative descriptive method in which data collection is carried out by taking from literature review; law, articles, books, and website, the author tries to analyze changes in brackets and rates of personal income tax. This study presents illustrations of the calculation to explain the difference in the amount of income tax payable before and after the implementation of the Tax Harmonization Law. In addition, the analysis of the principles of equity and democracy on the adjustment of layers and tax rates is elaborated in this paper. The results obtained explain that with the application of the new tax rate, taxpayers get a tax burden relief because the tax expense is lower due to the broadening of income range. However, wealthy taxpayers will pay more taxes because of the higher tax rates. This condition proves that the new tax rate supports vertical fairness in the taxation system. In addition, the implementation of regulations related to tax rates adjustment provides evidence that the implementation of democracy has been implemented. The adjustment of tax brackets and rates has a positive impact on the community and the government so that the allocation of tax revenues can run optimally to support the welfare of the community.

Unified Social Tax Reform and Shadow Sector in Healthcare and Education

2006 ◽  
pp. 107-119
Author(s):  
G. Besstremyannaya
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Tax Reform ◽  
Shadow Economy ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Shadow Prices ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Market Prices ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Informal Labor

The paper studies the interdependence between unified social tax decrease and the evolution of shadow output and shadow prices in healthcare and education. The shadow economy is regarded as the combination of purely shadow activity as well as informal labor within official economy. The analysis shows that although in healthcare lowering of the unified social tax rate causes the decrease of shadow output, in education, on the contrary, the growth of shadow production is registered. If the decrease of unified social tax is accompanied by the rise in personal income tax rate, the economy faces considerable growth of shadow and market prices for educational and healthcare services.

DECOMPOSITION OF SOCIAL INCOME ADJUSTMENT EFFECT OF CHINA’S PERSONAL INCOME TAX AND SELECTION AMONG DIFFERENT UNIFORM INCOME TAX MODES

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (04) ◽  
pp. 917-941
Author(s):  
HU HUA
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Income Taxes ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Tax Burden ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Income Gap ◽  
Business Income

Based on 10342 Chinese family samples, by means of non-linear models, the effects of wage income tax (WIT), individual business income tax (IBIT) and other income tax (OIT) on the income gap in China are analyzed. It is found that China’s classified income tax is helpful to narrow the income gap. WIT plays a very important role in narrowing the income gap, with IBIT and OIT widening the income gap. Such income taxes, especially WIT, cause differences of the tax burden between taxpayers who have the same income amount. Uniform income tax is an indispensable measure to solve the problems. On the basis of the income tax systems of 13 countries, 16 different kinds of personal or household uniform income tax modes were built up. Namibia’s household uniform income tax mode is practical to China, because the income adjustment effect of such mode is stronger than that of China’s classified income tax, but the average tax rate of it is lower than that of China’s classified income tax.

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.

scholarly journals Personal Income Taxation in Poland

Ekonomika ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edyta Małecka-Zieńska
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Tax Exemptions ◽  
Tax Deductions ◽  
The One ◽  
Taxation System

The Polish taxation system has been undergoing substantial changes in recent years, aimed at creating a more transparent system and conforming to the taxation standards of market economy countries. The two most important changes were introduction of the personal income tax (PIT) in 1992 and replacement of the turnover tax with the value added tax (VAT) in 1993. The uniform personal income tax covered all incomes generated by natural persons irrespective of where the sources of income are located. The reform provided also a more equitable distribution of the tax burden by introducing a progressive system with three nominal tax rates (in 1992-20%, 30%, 40%).A comparative study of the effective PIT rate for pensioners and other groups of PIT payers is the main goal of this paper. The study refers to our own research on data received from The information of Polish Ministry of Finance about accounting of PIT in several subsequent years. Statistics cover a period from 1993 to 2003. However, numbers of taxpayers refer also to year 1992 when the PIT has been established and a period from 2004 to 2006.Concluding the situation in Poland, taxpayers with the highest income make exhaustive use of tax reductions. There are occurring situations when well-off people benefit more than people with relatively minor income (e. g. pensioners). It happens even if most of deductions were aimed generally at all taxpayers. Such a situation reduces the impression of the system fairness. Because tax deductions reduce budgetary revenues, the foregone revenues have to be compensated by other taxes or / and higher rates. Therefore, the system of deductions and relief, on the one hand, supports the special gains (e. g. house building), however, on the other it generates costs. It is possible that the reduction of tax rate for the I tax bracket and removal of some tax exemptions and deductions would make the Polish personal income tax more transparent, equal and simple.

scholarly journals O Regime Fiscal das Pequenas e Médias Empresas (PME)

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Casalta Nabais
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Corporate Income Tax ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
Relevant Factor ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Consumption Tax ◽  
Fiscal Regime ◽  
Specific Tax

O REGIME FISCAL DAS PEQUENAS E MÉDIAS EMPRESAS*  THE FISCAL REGIME OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED COMPANIES  José Casalta Nabais**  RESUMO: O autor começa por dar conta da delimitação das micro, pequenas e médias empresas no direito da União Europeia e sua correspondência na ordem jurídica portuguesa. Depois refere algumas das situações em que a dimensão das empresas é considerada na tributação do rendimento e do consumo, destacando os regimes simplificado em IRS e em IRC e os regimes de isenção e dos pequenos retalhistas em IVA. Trata também dos incentivos fiscais mais importantes que têm por objecto as micro, pequenas e médias empresas, em que salienta os dirigidos à capitalização das empresas. Termina reflectindo sobre o actual sentido de um específico regime fiscal para as PME e a necessidade da consideração unitária do fenómeno financeiro das empresas. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Micro, Pequenas e Médias Empresas. Tributação do Rendimento e do Consumo. Incentivos Fiscais. ABSTRACT: The author starts by explaining the meaning of micro, small and medium-sized companies in EU law and the correspondent characterisation in Portuguese law. After mentioning some of the situations in which the dimension is considered as a relevant factor in the taxation of income and consumption, he emphasis the simplified regimes in the Portuguese Personal Income Tax (IRS) and in the Portuguese Corporate Income Tax (IRC) as well as the exemption systems and small retailers taxation in VAT. It also explains the tax incentives directly pointed to the micro, small and medium-sized companies, and stresses the ones that are focused to the capitalization of the companies. In the end, the text reflects on the actual sense of a specific tax scheme for micro, small and medium companies (SME’s) and the need for consideration of the phenomenon of companies as a financial unit. KEYWORDS: Micro, Small and Medium-sized Companies. Taxation of Income and Consumption. Tax Incentives.   SUMÁRIO: Introdução. 1 A Diversidade de Empresas com Reflexo no Direito Fiscal. 1.1 A Base Jurídica e o Universo das PME. 1.2 Alusão às Empresas Transnacionais e sua Separação das Demais Empresas. 2 Aspectos do Regime Fiscal das PME. 2.1 A Consideração das PME em Sede do IRS Empresarial e do IRC. 2.2 A Consideração das PME em Sede do IVA. 2.3 As PME e os Benefícios Fiscais. 2.3.1 Os Benefícios Fiscais em Sentido Estrito e os Incentivos Fiscais. 2.3.2 Referência a Alguns Incentivos Fiscais Destinados às PME. 3 Por uma Abordagem Fiscal mais Consequente e Simples das PME. 3.1 Sentido Actual de um Específico Tratamento Fiscal das PME. 3.2 A Consideração Fiscal Unitária do Fenómeno Financeiro das Empresas. Referências.* Artigo elaborado a partir da nossa participação no Congresso Internacional “As PME e o Direito”, realizado na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, pelo Instituto Jurídico (IJ) e Instituto de Direito das Empresas e do Trabalho (IDET), nos dias 6 e 7 de Outubro de 2016.** Catedrático associado com agregação na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, onde leciona Direito Administrativo e Fiscal, junto ao Programa de Pós-Graduação. Doutor em Ciências Jurídico-Políticas pela Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.

scholarly journals Are Local Tax Rates Strategic Complements or Strategic Substitutes?

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphaël Parchet
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Strategic Substitutes ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
The Public

The identification of strategic interactions among local governments is typically plagued by endogeneity problems. I exploit the fact that local jurisdictions located close to a state border have some neighbors in another state and instrument the tax rate of neighbor jurisdictions with the state-level tax rate of the neighboring state. I use this instrument to identify strategic personal income tax setting by local jurisdictions in Switzerland and find that tax rates are strategic substitutes. I then develop a residence-based personal income tax competition model and show that tax rates are strategic substitutes if the elasticity of the marginal utility of the public good with respect to the tax rate is above one. This is notably the case in the presence of economies of scale in the public good provision. (JEL H24, H71, H73, H77)

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