Traditional models of tax evasion cannot explain why most people comply with their taxes. It has been proposed that taxpayers may have an intrinsic motivation (or willingness) to comply with taxes - Tax Morale. Empirical studies found that trusting government, upholding religious beliefs, and supporting democratic regimes, increase individual Tax Morale. Based on those results and drawing from related literature in Political Science, this study tests the role of trusting government institutions delivering public goods to taxpayers, ideological beliefs, individual support for political regimes, and upholding post-materialist values, on Tax Morale. Results for individuals living in democratic countries show a positive relationship between trust in government institutions and upholding democratic values on Tax Morale; a negative relationship between upholding ideological (conservative) beliefs and Tax Morale, and no relationship between upholding post-materialist values and Tax Morale. Results for individuals living under non-democratic regimes differ in some respects; whereas support for democracy is related with higher Tax Morale, other results - trust in government and ideological beliefs - differ from theoretical expectations. Overall, higher trust in government increases willingness to comply with taxes, and support for democracy elicits higher Tax Morale.

Denna avhandling behandlar frågan om i vilken utsträckning ett egenintresserat handlande kan vara etiskt berättigat. Utgångspunkten för analysen är homo economicus, den neoklassiska ekonomiska teorins antagande att individer är rationella och ultimat motiveras av sitt egenintresse. Efter en kort översikt av grunddragen i den neoklassiska ekonomiska teorin analyseras och preciseras egenskaperna hos homo economicus. Därefter utformas en normativ etisk teori för individer med anknytning till John Rawls teori om rättvisa. Syftet är att utforma ett teoretiskt ramverk för den etiska bedömningen av egenintresserat handlande. I det avslutande kapitlet tillämpas den rawlsianska etiska teorin på frågor om beskattning och skatteundandragande. Tillämpningen visar att skatteundandragande kränker ett flertal av den rawlsianska etiska teorins principer. Avslutningsvis diskuteras även skattereduktion för hushållsnära tjänster, RUT-avdraget, som ett medel för att komma tillrätta med skatteundandragande i vissa särskilt utsatta branscher. Jag hävdar att skattereduktion för städhjälp kan berättigas utifrån den rawlsianska etiska teorin, medan det ifrågasatta avdraget för läxhjälp inte kan berättigas. / This dissertation deals with the question of whether self-interested actions can be morally justified. The theoretical starting point of the inquiry is homo economicus, the neoclassical economics’ assumption that individuals are rational and ultimately motivated by their self-interest. After a brief sketch of neoclassical economic theory, the main characteristics of homo economicus are analyzed and clarified. A normative ethical theory for individuals drawing on John Rawls’s theory of justice is developed. The aim is to suggest a theoretical framework for dealing with the ethical justification of self-interested actions. In the final chapter of the thesis, the rawlsian ethical theory is applied to issues of taxation, as well as tax evasion and tax avoidance. It is argued that tax evasion/tax avoidance violates several principles identified in the rawlsian ethical framework. Tax deduction for domestic service work, as a measure to overcome tax evasion by transforming black-market work into white-market work, is also discussed. By applying the rawlsian ethical theory it is argued that tax deduction for house cleaning can be justified from the suggested framework, while deduction for the much-debated homework help cannot be justified. / <p>In the printed version of this Ph.D. Thesis the ISBN is incorrect: 9<strong>87</strong>-91-7519-202-4. The correct ISBN is 9<strong>78</strong>-91-7519-202-4 and corrected in the electronic version.The series namn <em>Studies in Applied Ethics</em> is incorrect. The correct series name is <em>CTE</em>.</p>

Univ., Diss.-2002--Würzburg, 2001. / Literaturverz. S. 177 - 195.

The topic of my diploma thesis is: The Account Mistakes and Tax Evasion. I chose this topic because tax has become a common part of our lives and that is why it is important to know about the problems as much as possible to avoid possible mistakes and faults. It is interesting that the most of account and tax mistakes do not appear in unusual situations but in common and everyday cases. The group of the problems connected with accountancy and taxation is realy wide and alternatives of account and tax faults are infinite. The goal of this work is to least partly contribute to elimination of these faults. I explain the interpretation of a mistake in the resorts of law, accountancy and taxation in the teoretical part. I give the most often mistakes in the resort of accountancy in costs. The theoretical part also contains the most common mistakes in the resortof taxation, especially of income tax of physical and legal entity. The practical part contains examples of tax evasion and the resort where it occur most frequently. Part of my practical work also mention examples of tax evasion of value added tax, fuel, problems in the resort of foreign workers and evasion caused of denatured alcohol.

O presente trabalho procura identificar e descrever as possibilidades da utilização de procedimentos de reorganização societária tais como fusão, cisão e incorporação como formas de planejamento tributário. As reorganizações societárias vêm sendo utilizadas freqüentemente com a finalidade de se reduzir o ônus tributário das empresas e, conseqüentemente, aumentar sua lucratividade. Primeiramente procurou-se descrever e conceituar os processos de reorganização societária, bem como seus aspectos formais e burocráticos. Na seqüência abordou-se a questão da elisão e evasão fiscal, com ênfase na Lei Complementar 104/2001. Ainda, discorreu-se brevemente sobre o planejamento tributário, suas definições, características e importância para as empresas. Após isso abordou-se a questão da interpretação econômica dos atos. E, por fim, tratou-se brevemente sobre o planejamento tributário e a reorganização societária sobre o ponto de vista ético. As principais conclusões acerca do estudo foram: a legalidade da aplicação da reestruturação societária como instrumento de planejamento tributário e a necessidade de profundo conhecimento da legislação antes da operacionalização destes processos, uma vez que é sutil a diferença entre elisão (forma lícita de planejamento tributário) e a evasão (forma ilícita de redução tributária). / This study seeks to identify and describe the possibilities of the use of reorganization procedures such as merger, division and incorporation as forms of tax planning. The reorganizations have been used frequently for the purpose of reducing the tax burden of enterprises and, consequently, increase their profitability. First we tried to describe and conceptualize the processes of reorganization, as well as its formal aspects and bureaucracy. Following addressed the issue of tax evasion and avoidance, with emphasis on Complementary Law 104/2001. Still, talked briefly about tax planning, their definitions, characteristics and importance for businesses. After that addressed the issue of economic interpretation of the acts. And finally, it was briefly about tax planning and corporate restructuring on the ethical point of view. The main conclusions of the study were: the legality of the implementation of corporate restructuring as a tool of tax planning and the need for deep knowledge of the legislation before the operationalization of these processes, since the difference is subtle elision (lawful tax planning) and evasion (illegally tax reduction).

Le Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act est une réglementation américaine issue du Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act adopté par le 111e Congrès américain le 18 mars 2010. Cette réglementation instaure un système de communication automatique d’informations financières à des fins fiscales adossé à un mécanisme de retenue à la source d’un montant de 30% sur des paiements de source américaine faits à des institutions financières étrangères ou à certaines entités non-financières étrangères qui ne respecteraient pas les obligations de déclaration mise en place. La résonance de la loi FATCA est globale et la réglementation touche aussi bien les personnes américaines que les bénéficiaires étrangers et notamment les banques ainsi que les fonds d’investissement. La finalité de la réglementation n’est toutefois pas de permettre à l’Internal Revenue Service (administration fiscale américaine) de collecter la retenue à la source de 30% mais de contraindre les entités étrangères, sur lesquelles il n’a aucune juridiction, à transmettre les informations nécessaires à l’identification des détenteurs de comptes américains. Résolument bilatéral, la loi FATCA a ouvert la voie à une nouvelle forme de lutte contre l’évasion et la fraude fiscales vers les centres financiers offshore et fût émulée rapidement par l’OCDE lequel a institué son propre standard, la Norme commune de déclaration, s’inscrivant dans une logique multilatérale. Pourtant, le risque résulte de l’interaction de ces deux instruments, faisant notamment des États-Unis un véritable trou noir dans un réseau international de coopération administrative fiscale pour les contribuables non-résidents sur le territoire américain / The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act is an American law spawned by the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act enacted by the 111th Congress of the United-States on March 18th, 2010. FATCA imposes a system of automatic information reporting, seconded by a 30% rate withholding tax on US source payments made to foreign financial institutions and some identified non-financial foreign entities that do not comply with the reporting obligation. FATCA has developed a worldwide resonance and affects US persons as well as foreign payee and especially foreign banks and investment funds. The purpose of FATCA is not however to allow the IRS to collect the 30% withholding tax but rather to force foreign entities, over which the IRS does not have jurisdiction, to comply with their reporting information and allow for the IRS to obtain the required documentation regarding their US account owners.Fundamentally bilateral, FATCA’s regime has paved the way towards a new system of control of international tax fraud and evasion towards offshore tax havens and was quickly emulated by the OECD which created its own system, fundamentally multilateral: the Common Reporting Standard. However, it’s the interaction between the two systems that creates an unfortunate outcome, turning, for non-US taxpayers, the United-States into a black hole in the global transparency network created by the countries in an effort to fend off tax evasion

O presente trabalho procura identificar e descrever as possibilidades da utilização de procedimentos de reorganização societária tais como fusão, cisão e incorporação como formas de planejamento tributário. As reorganizações societárias vêm sendo utilizadas freqüentemente com a finalidade de se reduzir o ônus tributário das empresas e, conseqüentemente, aumentar sua lucratividade. Primeiramente procurou-se descrever e conceituar os processos de reorganização societária, bem como seus aspectos formais e burocráticos. Na seqüência abordou-se a questão da elisão e evasão fiscal, com ênfase na Lei Complementar 104/2001. Ainda, discorreu-se brevemente sobre o planejamento tributário, suas definições, características e importância para as empresas. Após isso abordou-se a questão da interpretação econômica dos atos. E, por fim, tratou-se brevemente sobre o planejamento tributário e a reorganização societária sobre o ponto de vista ético. As principais conclusões acerca do estudo foram: a legalidade da aplicação da reestruturação societária como instrumento de planejamento tributário e a necessidade de profundo conhecimento da legislação antes da operacionalização destes processos, uma vez que é sutil a diferença entre elisão (forma lícita de planejamento tributário) e a evasão (forma ilícita de redução tributária). / This study seeks to identify and describe the possibilities of the use of reorganization procedures such as merger, division and incorporation as forms of tax planning. The reorganizations have been used frequently for the purpose of reducing the tax burden of enterprises and, consequently, increase their profitability. First we tried to describe and conceptualize the processes of reorganization, as well as its formal aspects and bureaucracy. Following addressed the issue of tax evasion and avoidance, with emphasis on Complementary Law 104/2001. Still, talked briefly about tax planning, their definitions, characteristics and importance for businesses. After that addressed the issue of economic interpretation of the acts. And finally, it was briefly about tax planning and corporate restructuring on the ethical point of view. The main conclusions of the study were: the legality of the implementation of corporate restructuring as a tool of tax planning and the need for deep knowledge of the legislation before the operationalization of these processes, since the difference is subtle elision (lawful tax planning) and evasion (illegally tax reduction).

Cette recherche a pour objet d’étudier les formes dont les différents concepts de justice fiscale ont été traduits en formes juridiques.Il convient de souligner que l’on trouve des développements importants sur le concept de Justice dans les écrits d’Aristote qui distinguait la justice générale et la justice particulière. Celle-ci est fractionnée en justice commutative et justice distributive. Cette dernière notion a souvent été reprise par les théoriciens de la fiscalité, elle est encore implicitement très active de nos jours. Cette vision unitaire de la justice légale et morale fut remise en question par celle du positivisme juridique qui a séparé droit et morale. Néanmoins si le concept de Justice est au cœur d’une réflexion générale sur le Droit, il est particulièrement présent au sein du Droit fiscal.Il faut souligner que la Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen de 1789 a posé les bases de ce droit avec les principes figurant aux articles 13 et 14. Et c’est sur ce socle qu’ont été progressivement organisés les éléments d’une justice fiscale distributive puis redistributive. Il en est résulté un droit reflétant les atermoiements de doctrines fiscales développant des représentations très diverses de la question. Aujourd’hui, bien que les débats soient toujours présents, le pragmatisme semble l’emporter en focalisant le sujet sur la lutte contre la fraude et l’évasion fiscales. / This research aims to study the forms which different tax justice concepts were translated into legal forms.It should be stressed that there are important developments on the concept of justice in the writings of Aristotle, who distinguished the general justice and particular justice. This is divided into commutative justice and distributive justice. This notion has often been taken up by the theorists of taxation, it is still implicitly active today. This unitary vision of the legal and moral justice was challenged by the legal positivism that separated law and morality. However if the concept of justice is at the heart of a general reflection on the Law, it is particularly present in the tax law. Note that the Bill of Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789 laid the foundation of this law with the principles contained in Articles 13 and 14. It is on this foundation that were gradually organized the elements a distributive and redistributive tax justice. This resulted in a law reflecting the procrastination of fiscal doctrines developing diverse representations of the question. Today, although discussions are still present, pragmatism seems to outweigh the subject by focusing on the fight against fraud and tax evasion.

O presente trabalho procura identificar e descrever as possibilidades da utilização de procedimentos de reorganização societária tais como fusão, cisão e incorporação como formas de planejamento tributário. As reorganizações societárias vêm sendo utilizadas freqüentemente com a finalidade de se reduzir o ônus tributário das empresas e, conseqüentemente, aumentar sua lucratividade. Primeiramente procurou-se descrever e conceituar os processos de reorganização societária, bem como seus aspectos formais e burocráticos. Na seqüência abordou-se a questão da elisão e evasão fiscal, com ênfase na Lei Complementar 104/2001. Ainda, discorreu-se brevemente sobre o planejamento tributário, suas definições, características e importância para as empresas. Após isso abordou-se a questão da interpretação econômica dos atos. E, por fim, tratou-se brevemente sobre o planejamento tributário e a reorganização societária sobre o ponto de vista ético. As principais conclusões acerca do estudo foram: a legalidade da aplicação da reestruturação societária como instrumento de planejamento tributário e a necessidade de profundo conhecimento da legislação antes da operacionalização destes processos, uma vez que é sutil a diferença entre elisão (forma lícita de planejamento tributário) e a evasão (forma ilícita de redução tributária). / This study seeks to identify and describe the possibilities of the use of reorganization procedures such as merger, division and incorporation as forms of tax planning. The reorganizations have been used frequently for the purpose of reducing the tax burden of enterprises and, consequently, increase their profitability. First we tried to describe and conceptualize the processes of reorganization, as well as its formal aspects and bureaucracy. Following addressed the issue of tax evasion and avoidance, with emphasis on Complementary Law 104/2001. Still, talked briefly about tax planning, their definitions, characteristics and importance for businesses. After that addressed the issue of economic interpretation of the acts. And finally, it was briefly about tax planning and corporate restructuring on the ethical point of view. The main conclusions of the study were: the legality of the implementation of corporate restructuring as a tool of tax planning and the need for deep knowledge of the legislation before the operationalization of these processes, since the difference is subtle elision (lawful tax planning) and evasion (illegally tax reduction).

In 2015, the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) and the African Tax Institute at the University of Pretoria launched a project to identify the links between corruption, money laundering and tax crimes in Africa. The project promotes the concepts of good tax governance and the importance to economic development of a tax system that is transparent and free of corruption. The project explores how law enforcement agencies and tax authorities can best cooperate to counter corruption and bribery. The project was initially aimed at three focus countries, namely, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa, but soon was extended to other African countries. This is a joint initiative with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and is also supported by the World Bank. This book brings together a series of background papers prepared for the Conference on Inter-Agency Co-operation and Good Tax Governance in Africa held at the University of Pretoria in July 2016. After a rigorous double peer-review process, the papers were revised by the authors. We express our gratitude to and acknowledge the services of the following peer reviewers: Tom Balco; Carika Fritz; Leon Gerber; Willem Jacobs; Benjamin Kujinga; Thabo Legwaila; Annet Oguttu; Dirk Scholtz; David Solomon; and Xeniya Yeroshenko. Finally, we express our sincere gratitude to all the research and administrative assistants who contributed to the Good Tax Governance in Africa Project. This book pays tribute to their efforts. Jeffrey Owens, Rick McDonell, Riël Franzsen and Jude Amos (Vienna and Pretoria, November 2017)