There has been some concern that the pace of expectations being built up regarding the transfer of ownership of the economy into the hands of the previously disadvantaged was not allowing for the due diligence and analysis of the implications of such transactions. Tax legislation relating to the transfer of assets is also not seen to be consistently conducive to this process. The focus of this thesis is taxation and a critical analysis of how the current tax legislation affects most of the transactions which usually form the basis of black economic empowerment. It is argued that tax policy is one of the fundamental instruments available to government to encourage the process of black economic empowerment. It is therefore important to assess whether or not current tax legislation is supportive of the process of black economic empowerment and to suggest ways in which it can be amended to serve this purpose. By means of a literature review and a case study of a Black Economic Empowerment deal in the financial sector, the thesis examines various sections of the Income Tax Act, 58 of 1962, which may have a bearing on black economic empowerment transactions and structures, including corporate restructuring rules, the taxation of trusts, inter-company loans, the use of hybrid financial instruments, the taxation of small business corporations, employee share incentive schemes, connected persons rules and value-shifting arrangements, the general deduction formula and the deductibility of interest incurred on amounts raised to acquire shares. It appears that although some aspects of the current tax legislation lend themselves to assisting black economic empowerment transactions, there are still areas where much improvement is required. / KMBT_363

Individuals are often not aware of the required level of contributions needed to fund a retirement savings plan. This problem is compounded by the fact that the assistance provided to these individuals by way of commercially-available retirement planning models does not take into account the effect of income tax on the level of required retirement savings contributions and recent changes in the tax legislation to the income tax payable by individuals has had a significant effect on these required levels. As a preamble to the research process, an exploratory questionnaire was administrated to a sample of individuals, which was designed to measure the level of awareness of these individuals of the contributions to a retirement savings plan needed to fund their postretirement financial needs, and of the impact of age, the level of income and income tax on their contributions. Responses to the questionnaire indicated a low level of awareness of retirement planning amongst these individuals. A retirement planning model was then designed to test the effect of earnings, age and changes in tax legislation on the level of an individual's required monthly contributions to a retirement savings plan. Independent variables of age and income were processed using the model. These same variables were then processed using the Old Mutual and Liberty Life retirement planning models and a comparison was made between the model developed in the research and these commercially developed models, to assess their usefulness and limitations. Based on the above comparison, it appeared that the Old Mutual and Liberty Life retirement models both included the effects of the individual marginal tax rates in their calculations. However, they appeared to be using marginal tax rates which were higher than those reflected in the 2006 individual income tax tables. In addition these models did not include the effect of income tax exemptions and deductions and they therefore provided more conservative estimates than the retirement planning model designed in the research. Recent tax adjustments have had the effect of greatly increasing the after-tax income of individuals and therefore it is important to include the effects of changes in tax legislation in determining the monthly contributions to a retirement savings plan.

Véritable phénomène marquant le champ fiscal, la doctrine administrative constitue une manifestation du pouvoir, aussi bien de l'administration que de ses concepteurs, au point qu'elle se substitue largement à la norme fiscale. Se pose alors la question du respect de la hiérarchie des normes juridiques et de la protection du contribuable contre les débordements d'interprétation de l'administration fiscale. La doctrine administrative n'a aucune valeur juridique mais, souvent, les agents du fisc vont surtout se référer à l'instruction administrative au détriment, parfois, de la sécurité juridique et des droits et garanties des contribuables. Ce pouvoir de la doctrine nous interpelle sur son statut de manière à ne pas être placée dans un rang hiérarchique supérieur au texte fiscal. L'administration fiscale au Maroc n'échappe pas à ce phénomène qui devrait normalement solliciter l'intervention du pouvoir judiciaire. Or, les contribuables sont très réticents à recourir au juge administratif pour contester une doctrine illégale et préfèrent formuler à l'administration des demandes individuelles d'interprétation de la loi. Aussi, pour maîtriser et contrôler la doctrine administrative, est-il nécessaire de repenser l'élaboration de cette doctrine dans le sens d'une plus grande efficience en adoptant une démarche de conception collective. Et, pour pallier les éventuels abus, le recours pour excès de pouvoir doit avoir toute l'importance qu'il mérite en la matière afin de faire valoir la suprématie de la loi et consolider l’État de droit. / As an effective phenomenon marking the tax area, the tax administrative doctrine is a show of power of the tax administration and of their writers as well, to the point that it substitutes widely to the tax norm. This raises question of respect for the hierarchy of legal standards and taxpayer protection against the excesses of the tax administration interpretation. The tax administrative doctrine has no juridical value but, often, tax inspectors apply the administrativ circulars, bargaining and risking sometimes the juridical and law security and the taxpayers' guaranties. Thi power force of the tax administrative doctrine calls us on its status so as not to be placed on a hierarchical ran superior to the fiscal text. The tax administration in Morocco is not immune against this phenomenon which should normally seek th intervention of the juridical authority. However, taxpayers are reluctant to resort to administrative courts to challenge illegal doctrine and prefer to express individual requests to the administration for the interpretation of the law. Also, to monitor and contrai the administrative doctrine, it is necessary to rethink the elaboration of this doctrin in the order of greater efficiency by adopting an approach of collective conception. And to mitigate the possibl abuse, the appeal of abuse of power must have the importance it deserves in the field to assert the supremacy of the law and to consolidate the state of right.

Section 20 of the Income Tax Act, No 58 of 1962 allows a taxpayer that incurs an assessed loss to carry forward the balance of assessed loss incurred, to be set off against taxable income earned in or added to losses incurred in future years. The issues regarding the carry forward of assessed losses in terms of section 20 is complex and in terms of the said section, a company is only entitled to set off its assessed loss from the previous year against its taxable income in the current year, if the taxpayer has carried on a trade during the current year and has derived income from that trade. Under the provisions of section 20(2A), a taxpayer other than a company can utilise an assessed loss even if no trading has been conducted. Assessed losses of natural persons, may however be ring-fenced. The aim of this treatise was twofold. Firstly it was to gain clarity on the „trade‟ and „income from trade‟ issues and secondly to compare South African legislation with that of Australia, with a view to recommending a change in our rules regarding the treatment of assessed losses in the context of companies. The critical lessons to be learned from the cases presented, is that liquidators, creditors and others must ensure that the company continues trading in order to x keep the assessed losses valid. Realisation of assets (including stock), and the collection of outstanding debts during liquidation does not constitute the carrying on of a trade in terms of s 20(1). The continuity of trade is an important element in regard to the carry forward of assessed losses to be utilised in the current and future years. Therefore it is important that a company carries on some activity that falls within the definition of trade. In the landmark case of SA Bazaars, it was held that a company did not have to trade continuously throughout the year to qualify for the set-off of the assessed loss or carry forward of the assessed loss, that is, to trade for say part of the year. The court however left open the issue of whether it was necessary to derive income from that trade. In order to clarify the issues regarding assessed losses, SARS issued Interpretation Note 33 granting taxpayers a concession in certain cases where a company has traded, but not derived income from that trade. But in ITC 1830, the court ruled that a company must trade and must derive income from that trade in order to carry forward its assessed loss, which effectively means that SARS cannot apply Interpretation Note 33. SARS does not have the authority to make concession which is contrary to the wording of the Act. xi In Australia, operating losses can be carried forward indefinitely to be set-off against future income, provided a company meets the more than 50% continuity of ownership test. Where the continuity test fails, losses can be deducted if the same business is carried on in the income year (the same business test). From the research conducted and in order to solve the issues surrounding the carry forward of assessed losses it was suggested that one of the following be adopted :- The method used in Australia for the carry forward of assessed losses., or A decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal is needed for a departure from the literal meaning of the words pertaining to the requirements regarding the carry forward of assessed losses. Furthermore, to clarify the definition of „income‟, as used in the context of s20, is it gross income less exempt income or taxable income?. If section 20 relates to taxable income, then an assessed loss will never be increased, which it is submitted, is not what the legislature intended. Section 20 ought to be revisited to eliminate any uncertainty about the income requirement and in the context in which the word „income‟ is used in that section.

Investigación que busca dotar de contenido a la ley que creó el ITAN (Impuesto Temporal de los Activos Netos), a fin de determinar si el valor razonable es la medida contable que debe ser utilizada para el cálculo del dicho impuesto, puesto que de no ser así, la SUNAT estaría afectando económicamente a las empresas obligadas a pagar el mencionado tributo que hayan contabilizado sus activos al aludido valor de manera injusta. / Trabajo de investigación

Les rapports entre concurrence et droit fiscal, en tant que technique de mise en oeuvre du prélèvement fiscal, sont multiples et complexes. Il apparaît sans peine que la concurrence est affectée par le droit fiscal, dans la mesure où tant les dépenses fiscales que les normes fiscales peuvent dénaturer le rapport concurrentiel. En pratique un tel biais concurrentiel résulte de critères d’imposition ratione materiae ou personae qui décorrèlent la charge fiscale de l’avantage concurrentiel, lequel détermine à lui seul l’issue du jeu concurrentiel, et est réductible à l’avantage en valeur ajoutée. Dit de manière plus analytique, le droit fiscal est distorsif de concurrence lorsqu’il traite certains concurrents ou actes concurrents de manière différenciée, soit de jure, soit de facto, c’est-à-dire en fonction de leurs caractéristiques économiques, dans la mesure où une telle différenciation ne recoupe pas les différences de valeur ajoutée. Le jeu concurrentiel est par ailleurs un instrument du droit fiscal, qui définit un principe dit « de pleine concurrence » pour déterminer objectivement la base imposable d’échanges intragroupes. Ce principe, qui emporte des effets importants en droit commercial et en droit de la concurrence, permet en outre d’exposer empiriquement les distorsions de concurrence naissant d’une méconnaissance de la valeur ajoutée propre à chaque contribuable. Au final, la distorsion fiscale de concurrence apparaît bien comme une affaire de critère d’imposition ; cette dimension juridique pose nécessairement la question de la réception de cette distorsion par le droit positif. magistère de fait dessine ainsi une norme matérielle de concurrence qui affecte le droit fiscal. Ainsi, en droit interne, la teneur et la mise en oeuvre du principe d’égalité devant l’impôt repose de manière croissante sur des analyses concurrentielles spontanées du juge de l’impôt et du juge constitutionnel, dont la seule limite paraît être une approche abstraite de l’égalité et une grande latitude d’appréciation laissée par ces derniers au pouvoir fiscal. Ce rapport d’influence se double d’une véritable instrumentalisation du droit fiscal sur le terrain du droit économique, qui subordonne la fiscalité à sa propre finalité concurrentielle. En effet, le droit de l’Union européenne recourt de manière étendue et explicite à l’analyse concurrentielle dans son contrôle de conventionalité du droit fiscal, en s’opposant aux mesures fiscales internes susceptibles, par une atteinte à l’obligation de traitement national ou une concurrence fiscale déloyale, de mettre en échec l’intégration économique européenne. Appliquant au droit fiscal un prisme purement économique ne présentant que des égards très limités pour les objectifs et méthodes fiscales, le droit de l’Union européenne porte en germe la censure de toute politique fiscale, même indistinctement applicable, à raison de son objet mais plus encore de ses effets anticoncurrentiels. L’expression ultime de l’instrumentalisation du droit fiscal par la concurrence réside dans la jurisprudence qui commande l’imposition au seul regard des distorsions de concurrence naissant de son absence, faisant de la concurrence une source d’imposition. / The relationship between competition and tax law, defined as a means of setting the tax burden for corporations, is far-reaching and complex. Competition is undoubtedly shaped by tax law, insofar as tax expenditures and regular tax provisions may adversely affect the outcome of competition on a given market. Specifically, competition may be distorted by tax criteria that unalign the tax burden from the competitive advantage which determines the market outcome, and which can be defined as the difference in added value between competitors. A more analytical expression of this would be that the criteria setting the tax burden distort competition - either de jure or de facto - when they provide for a specific tax treatment of certain competitors or competing operations. Furthermore, pursuant to the arm’s length principle, competition can be considered as an instrument for tax law, insofar as it is used as a tool for setting intragroup tax bases. The arm’s length principle, which falls under anticompetitive pricing rules, evidences the distorsion of competition that stems from disregarding taxpayers’ respective added values, thereby empirically confirming that tax capacity and added value should be aligned in order for tax law to be competition-neutral. Accordingly, tax distorsions of competition are a question of tax criteria; this legal dimension begs the question of whether such distorsions are characterized and regulated by statute and /or case law.A first observation would be that competition increasingly applies to tax law, marginally via competition law (which is a paradox), but more profoundly and widely as the defining influence behind a number of provisions and principles that govern tax law. That competition is accordingly instrumental for these norms would tend to make of competition a substantive norm for tax law. The French principle of equality before tax increasingly factors full-fledged competition analyses in the tax and constitutional courts’ appreciation of the competitive effects of tax provisions, but its scope is curtailed by an overly abstract conception of equality and, overall, a reluctance to challenge the legislator’s policy decisions. This influence, characterized in French law and conducive to tax being affected by the objective of free competition, also entails the instrumentalization of tax law in the field of economic law, which imposes on tax law its own competitive objectives. Indeed, EU law provides a wider and more explicit use of competition analysis in its appreciation of the lawfulness of tax law, by precluding provisions which, through discrimination on the grounds of nationality or unfair tax competition, conflict with the European economic integration. Specifically, tax provisions are tested for anticompetitive object and / or effects, with their fiscal objectives or methods being mostly disregarded in this respect, to the extent that anticompetitive effects can be viewed as the ultimate governing principle for tax law. This is conducive to the instrumentalization of tax law by competition, with far-reaching implications for tax policies and their underlying criteria. Ultimately, tax law is instrumentalized by competition in the case-law that warrants taxation on the grounds of the distortions of competition that would arise from its absence, effectively making competition a source of taxation

Diploma thesis builds on discussion about harmonization of corporate income tax. It deals with the possibility of determining the tax base of corporate tax in the Czech Republic from the profit recognized in according with IFRS. The thesis describes general differences affecting the amount of profit by using IFRS and by using Czech accounting rules. Then an analysis of several items is made, the differential impact on profit or loss when comparing the two systems is most pronounced. The purpose of this thesis is to suggest a specific adjustment of the Income Tax Law so that the tax burden when using the profit according to the IFRS is the same as in case of using the profit according to the national rules.

The subject of this thesis is the issue of overdue receivables and their reflection in accounting according to accounting and tax legislation valid in the Czech Republic. First it discusses debt collection and related costs. Then it maps the rules for recognition of impairment loss on receivables in the accounts through allowances and write-offs, also from the perspective of international financial reporting standards and in terms of tax optimization. The main part of the work is an analysis of overdue debts and formed allowances in the years 2004 to 2014 in nine selected leasing companies operating on the Czech market, focusing on the influence of the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.

This thesis deals with employee benefits. The first part is focused generally on employee compensation, division of benefits and their legal regulations. The main part of thesis describes employee benefits from the point of view of accounting and taxes -- contribution for meals, non-alcoholic beverages, private use of company cars, contributions to the pension and life insurance, extra holidays, education of employees and gifts for employees. In conclusion, benefits are analysed in a selected company.

The author works with the increasing constitutionalization process of Tax Law in the country as starting point; then, makes an analysis of tax concept evolution from a general tax law theory point of view. Afterwards, explains Tax Law Constitutionalization specifying main communicating vessels between Constitutional and Tax Law. Finally, highlights the most important values and goals related with taxing and constitutional control implementation by the Tax Court. / El autor toma como punto de partida el proceso de constitucionalización creciente del derecho tributario de nuestro país para luego, desde la óptica de la teoría general de esta rama del derecho, realizar un análisis de la evolución del concepto de tributación. Seguidamente, nos explica la constitucionalización del derecho tributario, detallando los principales vasos comunicantes entre el derecho constitucional y el tributario actualmente. Finalmente, resalta los valores y fines constitucionales más importantes relacionados con la tributación y la aplicación del control constitucional por el Tribunal Fiscal.