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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Seminar on Selected Issues in Tax Theory and Practice

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 154-0565/01
Abbreviation SSITTP
Course title Seminar on Selected Issues in Tax Theory and Practice
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Finance
Course coordinator Ing. Karolina Lisztwanová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1.- 2.Tax, tax system, tax theory - basic terms (classification of taxes, tax principles, tax effect, tax incidence, tax policy). Examples of the determination of tax quota.
3.- 4.Personal income tax. Positives and negatives of PIT, history, taxpayer, tax rates in selected countries, calculation of tax liability, tax discounts, tax base, flat tax.Examples for practicing (final tax liability, effective tax rate, flat tax, sliding progression, tax splitting).
5.- 6.Corporate income tax. Positives and negatives of CIT, history, taxpayer, tax rates in selected countries, effective tax rate, tax base, calculation of tax liability.
7.- 8.Property taxes. Principles of property taxes, types of property taxes, positives and negatives.Real estate tax -basic characteristics and principles, tax base, tax subject, calculation, tax rate, tax rates in selected countries, tax on real estate transfer. Inheritance tax.
9. - 10.Consumption taxes - history, types of consumption taxes. Value added tax - basic characteristics, tax payer, way of calculation, positives and negatives, tax rates in selected countries, development of tax rates.
11. - 12.Rate of tax to sales price and effective tax rate at different levels of taxation, tax value according direct subtractive method and indirect subtractive method. Examples for practicing VAT.
13. - 14.Excise duty - main principles, calculation, positives and negatives, tax rates in selected countries.
15. - 16.Tax coordination and harmonization in European Union history of EU, main objectives of tax policy, levels of international cooperation in taxation.Harmonization of direct and indirect taxes.

Literature

JAMES, S. R. a Ch. NOBES. The economics of taxation: principles, policy and practice. 13th ed. Birmingham: Fiscal Publications, 2013. 328 p. ISBN 978-1-906201-22-7.
MUSGRAVE, R. A. a P. B. MUSGRAVE. Public Finance in Theory and Practice. 5th ed. McGREW-Hill book Company, New York, 2004. 627 p. ISBN 978-00-70596-93-1 .
LANG, M., P. MELZ a E. KRISTOFFERSSON. Value added tax and direct taxation: similarities and differences. 1st ed. Amsterdam: IBFD, 2009. 1296 p. ISBN 978-90-8722-060-0.

Advised literature

SCHELLEKENS, M. European Tax Handbook 2015. 26th ed. Amsterdam: IBFD, 2015. 1044 p. ISBN 978-90-8722-313-7.
SCHENK, A. a O. OLDMAN. Value added tax: a comparative approach. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 532 p. ISBN 978-0-521-61656-0.
LANG, M., P. MELZ a E. KRISTOFFERSSON. Value added tax and direct taxation: similarities and differences. 1st ed. Amsterdam: IBFD, 2009. 1296 p. ISBN 978-90-8722-060-0.