The purpose or objective of this dissertation was to analyse the current income tax treatment of derivative financial instruments in South Africa. In the context of financial markets, derivative financial instruments are mainly used for hedging and speculation. The dissertation considers whether the current South African Income Tax Act deals with the income taxation of derivatives with respect to gains and losses and the timing of those gains and losses. With regards to the nature of gains and losses arising from derivative transactions, the aspect which was considered is whether gains and losses were of a capital or revenue nature in the context of speculation or hedging. With regards to the timing of gains or losses, the dissertation considers when gains and losses should be brought into taxable income of a taxpayer. The following examples of derivative financial instruments were analysed: cross currency swaps, index options, credit default swaps and contracts for differences (CFDs). These derivatives were analysed with respect to the nature and timing of the gains or losses when hedging or speculating. The impact of the provisions of the Eighth Schedule is also considered with respect to the derivatives mentioned above. Copyright / Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Taxation / unrestricted

The relationship between taxpayers and tax practitioners is complex, as many diverse aspects shape their interaction. This explains why taxpayers and tax practitioners hold different expectations regarding tax services, leading to an expectation gap between taxpayers and tax practitioners. The primary objective of this qualitative study was to gain an understanding of the factors that contribute to the expectation gap between taxpayers and tax practitioners in South Africa. To achieve this primary objective, the Interactive Qualitative Analysis process was used as a research method to identify the factors that contribute to the expectation gap. Data were collected from four different South African focus groups, namely taxpayers, and three separate groups of different types of tax practitioners. Affinities were generated for each focus group, and possible cause-and-effect relations amongst the affinities were established using theoretical coding. A systems influence diagram was subsequently generated for each group to represent the entire system of influences and outcomes based on the perceptions of that focus group. Meta-themes relating to the key factors were identified by means of a thematic analysis of the affinities in a second coding cycle. These meta-themes led to the development of a conceptual framework of associations that describes the interactive nature of the expectation gap between taxpayers and their tax practitioners. Based on these associations, propositions were generated, and mechanisms and interventions regarding the roles of different groups in reducing the gap were suggested. A model for reducing the expectation gap was also proposed, based on the main themes that emanated from this study. The overarching theme is communication between taxpayers and their tax practitioners. This theme relates to the remaining six themes. These are capability of taxpayers and tax practitioners, clarity on the nature and scope of tax service, transparency on the fee structure of a tax service, external influences on taxpayers, the collecting agent’s systems and processes and finally incompatible compliance behaviour attitudes between taxpayers and tax practitioners. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / gm2013 / Taxation / unrestricted

This paper addresses a principle in international taxation that has long been a subject of controversy in many countries regarding the countering of abusive maneuverings in tax matters and had engendered debates amongst academic scholars concerning its predictibility. This anti-abuse principle, doctrine or clause in international tax matters had over the years received many names according to variant applied in each country. It is mentioned sometimes or refer to in many jurisdictions as: the principle of economic reality, the doctrine of economic substance, theory of valid economic motives, the principle of substance over form, abuse of the law, theory of the new realism etc. However, inspite of its variation in countries, it is internationally known as the ‘’General Anti-Avoidance Rule’’ (or GAAR), generally covering abusive arrangements, and it is distinguished from the SAAR (‘’Specific Anti-Avoidance Rule’’), insofar as these latter rule apply to specific status in dealing with specific tax issues. The long time perspective regarding the principle that is expounded in this discussion paper contain some of the most relevant and important contexts in international tax law. It is interesting that this paper seeks to catapult vis-à-vis the GAARs along side the rule of law regarding its conformity.

Les deux disciplines juridiques, l'arbitrage et la fiscalité, sont traditionnellement considérées comme distinctes, et s'excluent l'une et l'autre.D’un côté, la souveraineté fiscale est primordiale pour l’Etat. De l’autre côté, l’arbitre, étant un juge privé, a toujours été soupçonné, à tort ou à raison, de ne pas être assez sensible à l’intérêt public. Cependant, les développements observés sur les dernières décennies ont prouvé que cette incompatibilité entre les deux disciplines n’était pas ou plus le cas.En effet, avec la mondialisation économique, l’enjeu de l’Etat n’est plus comment taxer ses contribuables mais comment les conserver voire attirer ceux des autres Etats sur son territoire. Dans ce contexte, ils deviennent plus souples quant au règlement des litiges impliquant des questions fiscales. L’arbitrage de ces litiges est donc devenu une réalité en pratique. Cependant, en examinant le droit et la jurisprudence en cette matière, nous constatons que l’arbitrage n’est pas apte à résoudre tous litiges fiscaux, notamment en considérant les intérêts des contribuables. L’arbitrage des contentieux purement fiscaux en droit interne s’est avéré être un échec. Une forme dérivée de l’arbitrage, appelée l’arbitrage de la dernière offre, semble être plus appropriée pour résoudre les litiges concernant la double imposition. Toutefois, en droit de l’investissement international, où la jurisprudence arbitrale en matière fiscale s’est considérablement développée depuis une vingtaine années, nous constatant que l’arbitrage est un mode idéal pour résoudre des litiges fiscaux liés à ce domaine car les arbitres ont su trouver un équilibre entre la protection de la souveraineté fiscale de l’Etat d’accueil et la protection des contribuables –investisseurs étrangers. / The two disciplines, arbitration and taxation, are traditionally considered to be distinct, and exclude one another. On the one hand, tax sovereignty is vital for the state. On the other hand, arbitrator, being a private judge, has always been suspected, rightly or wrongly, of not being sufficiently sensitive to the public interest. However, the developments observed over the last decades have shown that this incompatibility between the two disciplines was not or is no longer the case. Indeed, with economic globalization, the challenge of the state is no longer how to tax its taxpayers but how to keep them in or even to attract those of other states to its territory. In this context, states become more flexible in resolving disputes involving tax issues. Arbitration of these disputes has thus become a reality in practice. However, in reviewing the law and the jurisprudence, we find that arbitration is not suitable for resolving all kinds of tax disputes, especially considering the interests of taxpayers. Arbitration of tax disputes in domestic law has been proved to be a failure. A form derived from arbitration, called baseball arbitration, appears to be more appropriate for resolving double taxation disputes. However, in international investment law, where the jurisprudence in tax matters has developed considerably over the past twenty years, we find that arbitration is an ideal way to resolve tax disputes related to this area, because arbitrators, in their practice, have found a balance between the protection of the host State's tax sovereignty and the protection of taxpayers-foreign investors

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:20:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jorge Sylvio Marquezi Junior.pdf: 929553 bytes, checksum: 7ef80f1c031b0a31c6f27743f5c731d2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-09 / Given to the introduction of the article 166 of the National Tax Code, which occurred simultaneously with the advent of the same Codex in 1966, several discussions have been waged such as the constitutionality of the legal norm, the materiality of its incidence and, surely, the factual substance that give grounds to its application. As a result of these clashes, many interpretations emerged from the article in question. Unfortunately, most of them, although supposedly made within the bounds of our legal system, have pointed out with concepts from other branches of scientific knowledge, especially the financial one. This verity has restricted, as said by several doctrinaires, the interpretation of article 166 based on the concepts of direct and indirect taxes, as well as legal and taxpayer-in-fact. We are firm in saying that this nowadays understanding, indeed, is unconstitutional, although we see a possible analysis governed by the Federal Constitution. Believing that the existing interpretations were not sufficient to bring relief to the infamous legal device, mainly by the fact that carries by its side other branches of scientific knowledge, we propose in this work a brand new look, making a very clear and restricted methodological cut to the legal system and still, taking other paradigms for its analysis. We shall not only consider the tax view s itself, but also the taxpayers obligation, since he will assume the role of the subject to the unduly paid rule, exactly the time that the legal application s norm shall appear. For such analysis, we have as a foundation the Federal Constitution, with great emphasis on the principles of legality and property, which, in our understanding, are indispensable for the correct measurement of cases in which article 166 of the National Tax Code may appear. In short, grounded on the principles abovementioned and looking also to the taxpayer, we will explicit what is the correct interpretation of the article 166 by the terms of the Federal Constitution / Desde a introdução do artigo 166 do Código Tributário Nacional, que ocorreu com o próprio advento do Códex em 1966, inúmeras discussões têm sido travadas, contrapondo-se desde a constitucionalidade do dispositivo normativo até minucias de sua incidência e, especialmente, as ocorrências fáticas que subsumiriam à sua hipótese. Em decorrência destes embates, várias interpretações surgiram tendo como suporte físico o artigo em questão. Infelizmente, a maior parte delas, muito embora supostamente efetivada dentro do sistema do direito, se valeu de conceitos de outros ramos do conhecimento científico, especialmente o ramo da ciência das finanças. Este fato acabou por sedimentar e restringir, em grande parte da doutrina, a intepretação do artigo 166 com base nos conceitos de tributos diretos e indiretos, bem como dos conceitos de contribuinte de direito e de fato. Estamos firmes em dizer que a intepretação que hoje é dada ao artigo 166 pela jurisprudência e parte da doutrina, de fato, é inconstitucional, mas vislumbramos uma interpretação possível e conforme a Carta Magna. Acreditando que as interpretações existentes não foram suficientes para trazer alento ao famigerado dispositivo legal, especialmente pelo fato de se valerem de outros ramos do conhecimento científico, propomos no presente trabalho uma revisitação do tema, efetuando um corte metodológico muito claro e restrito ao sistema do ordenamento jurídico e, ainda, tomando outros paradigmas para sua análise. Não nos valeremos, pois, apenas da observação do tributo para dizer se há repercussão jurídica ou não, permitindo ou não a incidência do artigo 166, procuraremos verter nossos olhos também para a figura do sujeito passivo da obrigação tributária, posto que será ele a assumir o papel de sujeito ativo da regra-matriz da repetição do quanto indevidamente pago, momento em se questiona sobre a aplicação do dispositivo legal em pauta. Para tal análise, como não poderia ser diferente, teremos como alicerce a Constituição Federal, com grande ênfase nos princípios da legalidade e da propriedade, os quais, em nosso entendimento, são imprescindíveis para a correta aferição dos casos em que o artigo 166 do Código Tributário Nacional poderá incidir. Em suma, amparados nos princípios acima e olhando também para a figura do sujeito passivo da exação, procuraremos explicitar qual é a interpretação do artigo 166 conforme a Constituição Federal

This paper aims at analyzing the current regulation of the income Tax of Individuals from a critical point of view of its effects on taxpayers’ ability to pay. Also, it propose a different solution to the current model of taxation in our country, which is found more accordance with the wealth of the taxpayers. / El presente ensayo tiene como objetivo el análisis de la actual regulación del impuesto a la renta de las Personas Naturales desde una perspectiva crítica de los efectos que ésta tiene en la capacidad contributiva de los contribuyentes. Asimismo, propone una solución distinta al actual modelo de gravamen en nuestro país, que se encuentre más acorde con la real manifestación de riqueza de los contribuyentes.

nÃo hà / O presente estudo buscou evidenciar a atividade de Monitoramento Fiscal adotada durante os Ãltimos anos pelos Fiscos Estaduais e Federal como ferramenta alternativa no combate a sonegaÃÃo fiscal. A Ãnfase do trabalho està no Monitoramento Fiscal desempenhado pela Secretaria da Fazenda do Estado do CearÃ. O objetivo principal foi de realizar uma investigaÃÃo dos impactos do Monitoramento Fiscal no comportamento dos contribuintes utilizando como variÃvel explicativa a arrecadaÃÃo de ICMS do Estado do CearÃ. Para tanto, utilizou-se a metodologia economÃtrica diferenÃa em diferenÃa, cuja amostra de dados necessÃria para a aplicaÃÃo desta metodologia foi fornecida pela Secretaria da Fazenda do Estado do Cearà sendo os dados cadastrais dos contribuintes omitidos face ao sigilo fiscal. Observou-se que o coeficiente nÃo foi estatisticamente significativo para os segmentos da indÃstria, comÃrcio varejista e serviÃo de transporte, no entanto, os resultados apontam que para o segmento econÃmico de comÃrcio atacadista, a atividade de Monitoramento Fiscal influenciou no comportamento dos contribuintes com um incremento de 73% na arrecadaÃÃo mÃdia de ICMS. / This present study we sought show the activity of Tax Monitoring adopted during the last years for Department of Finance of the States and Federal with alternative tool in the fighting tax evasion. The emphasis this work is in Tax Monitoring executed for Department of Finance of the State of CearÃ. The main objectives this work was does investigation impacts of Tax Monitoring on behavior of taxpayers using with explanatory variable the collection of ICMS. For that, we used the method econometric âdifference in differenceâ, which a information database from the Department of Finance of the State of Cearà and the records dates was omited because tax secrecy. The results shows that coefficient were not significant statistically for economic segments of industry, retail sale and trasnport, but, the results indicate that Tax Monitoring promoted for the wholesale segment a positive impact of 73% on the collection of ICMS.

Doctor Legum - LLD / Taxation is fundamental for development in South Africa (SA), a developing country with an emerging economy in which taxation is essential to capacitate the government so that it can fulfil its mandate under the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (Constitution). This mandate includes bringing about socio-economic transformation, part of transformative constitutionalism, through progressively realising socio-economic rights. This dissertation examines the way in which tax administration may take place efficiently and effectively with due respect for taxpayers' rights. A clear link is shown between taxation, human rights and the South African government's responsibilities to attain its transformation targets. To facilitate this process, the Constitution creates a legal framework for the imposition of tax and for the equitable distribution of tax revenue among the three spheres of government. For historical, political and other reasons, South Africans generally, as happens elsewhere in the world, lack a strong culture of voluntary tax compliance. Wilful non-payment of tax is antithetical to the values of democracy, ubuntu and the rule of law. Tax non-compliance minimises revenue collected from taxation. This, in turn, hinders the attainment of transformation in all its facets. A pressing need exists for laws that, on the one hand, promote tax morality and, on the other, strengthen the South African Revenue Service (SARS) so that it can effectively administer SA's national tax system (or grid). To this end, the Tax Administration Act 28 of 2011 (TAA) is pivotal. It regulates tax administration, a part of public administration. Under the Constitution, SARS is obliged to execute its functions in a manner respectful of taxpayers' rights and that upholds the Constitution’s values and democratic principles. Consequently, the TAA must strike a fair balance between, on the one hand, protecting taxpayers' rights and, on the other, arming SARS with adequate powers with which it can effectively combat the mischief of tax non-compliance. This dissertation shows that, when viewed through the prism of s 36 of the Bill of Rights (BOR), the powers conferred on SARS by ss 45(1), (2), 63(1) and (4) of the TAA to conduct warrantless inspections and searches, as the case may be, limit taxpayers' rights to, inter alia, privacy. It concludes that, whilst ss 63(1) and (4) ought to pass muster, ss 45(1) and (2) are susceptible to a declaration of invalidity under s 172(1) of the Constitution.

El presente trabajo de investigación, expondrá algunos problemas surgidos a raíz de los cambios incorporados en materia de precios de transferencia por los Decretos Legislativos N° 1112 y 1124, así como su reglamentación a través del Decreto Supremo 258-2012-EF. / Trabajo de investigación

O Direito Tributário não tem como finalidade única a arrecadação de receitas para custear os gastos estatais. Embora esta seja a sua finalidade principal, a verdade é que ela coexiste com outras funções, como a finalidade de distribuição de riqueza e de intervenção na ordem econômica e social. Nesse contexto, o objetivo desta dissertação é aprofundar o estudo sobre a utilização instrumental das normas tributárias, determinando quais seriam os critérios de controle para a utilização dessas normas cuja função precípua é a promoção de determinada finalidade social, política ou econômica, e não a mera arrecadação de recursos. Para isso, inicia-se o trabalho com a delimitação do regime jurídico atinente a estas normas, analisando a legitimidade da função indutora na tributação diante da Constituição de 1988 e verificando quais são as limitações próprias da tributação e os princípios da ordem econômica a elas aplicáveis. Em seguida, passa-se a demonstrar que a função extrafiscal precisa ser controlada através da verificação da validade da finalidade buscada com relação às restrições impostas aos direitos envolvidos, especialmente no que tange ao princípio da igualdade e a aplicação da capacidade contributiva. Além disso, evidencia-se que a função extrafiscal não pode ser definida apenas pela sua causa, mas também pelos seus efeitos no mercado, uma vez que a indução de comportamentos faz parte de sua própria natureza. Após isso, identifica-se a necessidade de controle sobre a utilização das normas tributárias indutoras, apresentando os critérios para tanto: o princípio da igualdade, a aplicação da capacidade contributiva, o controle de eficácia, o exame de proporcionalidade, a complementaridade, a subsidiariedade, a economicidade e o cumprimento da finalidade. Por fim, estes critérios são aplicados em exemplos de normas tributárias indutoras no sistema tributário brasileiro, a fim de contribuir para o desenvolvimento do debate jurídico acerca da extrafiscalidade. / The Tax Law does not have the sole purpose of raising revenue to fund state spending. Although this is its main purpose, the truth is that it coexists with other functions such as the purpose of distribution of wealth and intervention in economic and social order. In this context, the aim of this dissertation is to deepen the study of the instrumental use of tax rules, determining the criteria to control the use of tax rules whose primary function is the promotion of a specific social purpose, political or economic, not mere fundraising. For this, the work begins with the definition of the separate legal status to these rules, analyzing the legitimacy of the regulatory function in taxation in the 1988 Constitution and checking what are the limitations of taxation and the principles of Economic Order applicable to them. Then it goes to show that the extrafiscal function needs to be monitored by checking the validity of the order sought in relation to restrictions on rights involved, especially with regard to the principle of equality and the implementation of ability to pay. Furthermore, it is evident that the extrafiscal function cannot be defined only by their cause, but also for their effects on the market, since the induction of behavior is part of their nature. After that, we identify the need for control over the use of Tax rules to induce the taxpayers behavior, presenting the criteria for that: the principle of equality, the implementation of ability to pay principle, effectiveness control, proportionality test and complementarity, subsidiarity, economy and fulfillment of purpose. Finally, these criteria are applied to examples of Tax rules to induce the taxpayers behavior in the Brazilian tax system in order to contribute to the development of the legal debate over extrafiscality.