Tag Archives: politică fiscală
Total Tax Simplification: The Abolition of Corporate Tax
Today’s fiscal world tends to institutionalise itself, informally, in a reality where many accountants ask the business owners: “Boss, this year what profit do you want us to have?”. This way, the capitalist principle of “profit maximisation” is translated through a permanent, vicious and costly tax ping-pong between businessmen and the state. And this is not because the
Prices, Costs and Excise Duties: What’s What?
Inevitably, in any tax analysis, we would refer to prices and costs, salaries and production, prosperity etc. It is well known, although ultimately unjustified, the opinion that increasing indirect taxation, especially excise duties, will be reflected by prices and, further on, by inflationary escalations. This is the recent situation of the debate on the 7 eurocents that will be added to fuel excise
Capitalization for Businesses: Non-Taxation of Reinvested Profits
In some scenarios, agriculture and energy would be the strategic sectors that could bring a stronger economic growth in Romania. But, since always, and usually, the constant strategy of economic progress should be the profit, obtaining it, because beyond (strategic) circumstantial computations, the profit – as an economic principle and a state of affairs – is the engine that fuels
Absolute fiscal simplification by eliminating the corporate income tax
For more than 20 years, the tax system perpetuated itself bureaucratically and administratively, its main function being to serve the state budget. Anyway, where and when it was done, tax simplification was only marginal. Rarely were more daring solutions advanced, meant to revive a paralyzed, bureaucratic fiscal system that actually generated economic counter-
The Scenery of Optimal Taxation: Progressive vs. Flat Tax
In this study I invite you to a journey on the land of tax analysis, one that is surrounded by passion and controversies. The purpose of this “journey” is to understand the possibility that the economic science can “prescribe” the optimal taxation, both when it comes to the tax regime (progressive vs. flat tax), as well as regarding the level of taxation. I will argue the need to destroy some myths
