This study investigates, identifies and provides flowchart summaries of the various forms of taxation in South Africa and to a lesser extent Greece affecting South African residents who own or have financed fixed property in Greece. These residents have to comply with the Income Tax and Estate Duty Acts in South Africa and the relevant taxation laws in Greece. An amnesty gave South Africans an opportunity to voluntarily declare their fixed properties and to regularise their foreign assets and tax affairs without the fear prosecution. The practical application of the various taxation provisions in both countries is extremely complex and often residents are not even aware that certain provisions apply to them. In addition there is the risk of paying nearly double the marginal rate of Income Tax and Estate Duty in South Africa and double taxation on donations. This study also provides suggestions and possible solutions to problems identified. / Taxation / M. Tech. (Taxation)

Taxation statutes often provide opportunities for tax avoidance by taxpayers who exploit the provisions of the taxing statute to reduce the tax that they are legally required to pay. It is, however, important to distinguish between the concepts of tax avoidance and tax evasion. The central issue, especially where the contract has no business purpose, is whether it is possible for the substance and legal form of the transaction to differ to such an extent that a court of law will favour the substance rather than the legal format. The debate is whether the courts should be encouraged to continue with their "judge-made" law or whether the tax jurisdictions should be supporting a legislative route as opposed to a judicial one, in their efforts not only to combat tax avoidance but also to preserve taxpayer certainty. The question is whether the Doctrine of "Substance over Form" as applied by the judiciary is effective in combating tax avoidance, or whether a legislated general anti-avoidance provision is required. An intensive literature survey examines the changes which have occurred in the application of judicial tests from the 1930's to date and investigates the different approaches tax jurisdictions follow in order to combat tax avoidance. The effect of the introduction of anti-avoidance provisions in combating tax avoidance is evaluated by making a comparison between the United Kingdom and South Africa. [n the United Kingdom, the courts are relied on to create anti-tax avoidance rules, one of which is the Doctrine of "Substance over Form". The doctrine is very broad and identifies various applications of the doctrine, which have been developed by the courts. In South Africa, the Doctrine of "Substance over Form" has been applied in certain tax cases; however the South African Income Tax Act does include anti-tax avoidance sections aimed at specific tax avoidance schemes, as well as a general anti-tax avoidance measure enacted as section 103. The judicial tests have progressed and changed over time and the introduction of anti-avoidance legislation in the Income Tax Act has had an effect on tax planning opportunities. A distinction needs to be made between fraudulent and bona fide transactions while recognising the taxpayer's right to arrange his or her affairs in a manner which is beneficial to him or her from a tax perspective. Judicial activism and judicial legislation in the United Kingdom has created much uncertainty amongst taxpayers and as a result strongly supports the retention of a general anti-avoidance section within an Income Tax Act. A general anti-avoidance provision, following a legislative route, appears to be more consistent and effective in combating tax avoidance.

Mr Justice Corbett made a substantial contribution to the South African tax law as he delivered several judgements during his long career on the bench. Starting from the lower ranks as a judge he became Chief Justice of South Africa. Precedents set by his judgements are considered important and indicative of the level of South African tax law. This dissertation observes his background, looks at the operations of the tax court in South Africa and examines whether his judgements were cited and applied in subsequent cases as accepted precedent. International case law is referred to, to compare his judgements with comparable international tax law. / Auditing / M. Comm. (Accounting)

The genesis of the informal sector in Mozambique is similar to the way it emerged in many other countries in the world, starting mainly with small businesses performed by unemployed people, peasent families, street vendors among others as their self employment. The informal sector offers a striking illustration of the strengths and weakness of enterprises in Mozambique. A simple and transparent legal framework, properly enforced is indispensable for the long term success of the informal sector to turn to formal sector. Taxation is controversary in the informal sector. The existing tax system in Mozambique is distorced and naturally contribute to a host of economic and social problems. The needed for the reform of taxation system has been acknowledged for instance the recent implementation of VAT system in Mozambique still on process of implementation. Taxes generated by the informal sector could contribute to the budget of the State. / Mercantile Law / LL.M.

Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2006. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Governments do not want their tax collection to be affected by multinational companies that make use of distorted pricing models in order to maximize profits. For this reason Governments everywhere are implementing strict transfer pricing policies. These policies are mainly based on the OECD Guidelines with respect to transfer pricing. On the other hand, multinational companies do not want to be exposed to double taxation. The South African government also introduced regulations with respect to transfer prices set by multinational companies. Section 31 of the Income Tax Act 58, 1962, deals specifically with the issue of transfer pricing. This is fully explained in Practice Note 7 of SARS. RHI Refractories Africa, as part of the multinational company RHI-Ag, has to comply with SARS legislation. RHI Refractories Africa purchase many materials and products from the parent company for resale in the local market. The SEN is one such product and was selected for evaluation. This study found, after evaluation of the functions performed by RHI Refractories Africa and evaluating all the various preferred methods, the Resale Price Method (RPM) to be the most appropriate method to be used in the evaluation of the status of RHI Refractories Africa with respect to compliance with current SARS legislation. The gross margins eamed by RHI Refractories Africa on the sale of TYK and THOR SENs were compared. It was found that the gross margins earned on the sale of THOR SENs in the controlled transaction were actually higher than those earned in the uncontrolled transaction with TYK. The conclusion of this study is that RHI Refractories Africa does comply with current SARS legislation as measured against the guidelines of Practice Note 7 from SARS. This study further proposes that RHI Refractories Africa evaluate and document the process followed for all the inter-company transactions in order to ensure full compliance with SARS legislation. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Regerings wil verhoed dat die belasting basis verklein word deur multinasionale maatskappye wat gebruik maak van prys modelIe wat daarop gemik is om belasting te ontduik en sodoende die marges van die maaskappye te verhoog. Vir die rede implimenteer regerings strenger maatreels om te verseker dat oordrag pryse markverwant is en bly. Die riglyne soos voorgestel deur die OECD word meestal as basis gebruik vir die opstel van lokale wetgewing. Terselfdertyd wil multinasionale maatskapye ook nie dubbele belasting betaal nie. Die Suid Afrikaanse regering het wetgewing daar gestel as deeI van Seksie 31 van die Inkomste Belasting Wet 58, 1962, wat spesifiek handel met oordrag pryse. Die wetgewing word verder verduidelik in Praktiese Nota 7. RHI Refractories Africa, as deeI van die multinasionale maatskapy RHI-Ag, moet voldoen aan SARS wetgewing. RHI Refractories Africa koop 'n verskeidenheid van materiale en produkte van die moeder-maatskapy vir herverkoop in die lokale mark. Die SEN is een so 'n produk en is gekies vir evaluasie. Die funksies wat RHI Refractories Afrika uitvoer ten opsigte van die verkoop van SENs is ten volle ondersoek. Die verskillende metodes vir evaluering van die oordrag prys soos voorgestel deur SARS is ook ondersoek en daar is gevind dat die Herverkoop Prys Model (RPM) die mees geskikte model is vir RHI Refractories Africa om te gebruik in die evaluering van die verkoop van SENs. Die bruto marge wat RHI Refractories Africa behaal met die verkoop van TYK en THOR SENs is vergelyk. Daar is gevind dat die bruto marge wat behaal is met THOR SENs, as deel van die beheerde transaksie, in werklikheid groter is as die wat met TYK SENs in die onbeheerde transaksie behaal is. Die konklusie van die studie is dat RHI Refractories Africa wel voldoen aan die vereistes daar gestel deur SARS soos gemeet aan die riglyne van Praktiese Nota 7. Die studie stel voor dat RHI Refractories Africa al die intermaatskaplike transaksies evalueer aan die hand van die SARS riglyne om te verseker dat daar ten volle voldoen word aan die vereistes van SARS.

This study analyses the nature and implementation of electronic commerce in order to identify possible problems for taxation and pinpoint those problems which may be relevant to South Africa. Solutions suggested by certain countries and institutions are evaluated for possible implementation in South Africa. The study suggests that although current taxation legislation in South Africa is apP'icable to electronic commerce transactions it is not sufficient to cater effectively for this type of business. The conclusion reached Is that international co-operation is essential in finding solutions. A number of recommendations are made regarding aspects of South African taxation legislation which need to be clarified through policy decisions. Title of / Taxation / M.Comm.

Définir une immobilisation en droit fiscal implique de se référer à des critères permettant préalablement d’identifier l'existence d'un actif mobilisable et d'en mesurer le coût d'inscription à l’actif. La difficulté réside dans le fait que le Code général des impôts contient une seule disposition, l'article 38 quinquies de l’Annexe III qui prévoit que : « les immobilisations sont inscrites au bilan pour leur valeur d'origine.... ». Si le code traite de la mesurabilité il reste muet sur l'identification. En l’absence d’une définition purement fiscale, il convient de se retourner vers le droit comptable. En effet, il ressort de l’article 38 quater de l’Annexe III du Code général des impôts que "les entreprises doivent respecter les définitions édictées par le Plan comptable général, sous réserve que celles-ci ne soient pas incompatibles avec les règles applicables pour la détermination de l'assiette de l'impôt". A cet égard, le plan comptable général définit un actif comme « un élément identifiable du patrimoine ayant une valeur économique positive pour l’entité, c'est-à-dire un élément générant une ressource que l’entité contrôle du fait d’événements passés et dont elle attend des avantages économiques futurs ». Cette définition est la conséquence d’une réforme profonde de notre comptabilité. En effet, la comptabilité a connu un bouleversement, depuis le 1er janvier 2005, toutes les entreprises cotées de l’Union européenne devant présenter leurs comptes consolidés selon des normes comptables internationales. Par ailleurs et toujours sous l’influence des normes comptables internationales, la comptabilité interne a désormais tendance à privilégier une approche économique au détriment d’une conception traditionnellement patrimoniale. La définition des immobilisations incorporelles confirme parfaitement cette évolution et pour certains reflète même, à terme, la disparition d’un droit comptable et fiscal spécifiquement français. / For a definition of a fixed asset in Taxation Law we must be guided by those criteria that in the first instance enable the identification of an underlying asset and the calculation of the acquisition cost for that asset. The difficulty resides in the fact that the General Taxation Code contains only one provision, article 38 quinquies (fifth section) of Appendix III which stipulates that: “Fixed assets shall be recorded on the balance sheet at their original value”. Although the Code deals with measurability it falls silent on identification. In the absence of a purely fiscal definition, we need to turn to accountancy law. In this regard, it emerges from article 38 quater (fourth section) of Appendix III of the General Taxation Code that "businesses shall comply with the definitions set out by the General Accountancy Plan subject to these not being incompatible with the applicable regulations for the calculation of tax brackets". In this regard, the General Accountancy Plan defines an asset as “an identifiable component of property having a positive value for the entity, i.e. a component generating a resource that the entity controls owing to previous events and from which it anticipates future financial advantage”. This definition is the result of a profound reform of our accountancy practices. In fact, accountancy has been in a state of upheaval since 1st January 2005, when all listed companies within the European Union were required to publish their consolidated accounts in accordance with international accountancy regulations. What is more, and also under the influence of international accountancy regulations, internal accountancy now tends to favour a financial approach to the detriment of a traditionally asset-based approach. The definition of intangible fixed assets fully confirms this trend and for some it heralds the ultimate disappearance of any specifically French accounting and taxation law.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-03T18:35:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Erika_Borges_Ferreira.pdf: 1930538 bytes, checksum: 57c58b3dcf42398b46a80f66f116ec8c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-31 / The noncumulative emerged aiming to relieve the supply chain. The cumulative system is still applied, but many scholars argue that this form of taxation is detrimental to society because it has \"cascade\" effect. When drafting the law that determines on the non-cumulative PIS / COFINS (Social Integration Program / Contribution to Social Security Financing), the legislature created the obligation linked to this form of calculation of Income Tax systematic. Thus, companies are taxed on taxable income required to calculate their social contributions to the non-cumulative basis, on the other hand, companies that are on presumed income will have cumulative PIS / COFINS rates. In addition, legislation has listed punctually what are the inputs and credits allowed to relieve the supply chain. These attitudes have caused a mismatch with the general objectives of the creation of non-cumulative, this because the set which credits are allowed to discount, no full applicability of the principle of non-cumulative. Plus, segregate the determination in cumulative and non-cumulative basis in the computation of income provides a number of non uniform taxpayers with distinct characteristics and especially with costs / expenses divergent. It is noteworthy that the borrowing under the heading input, the nomenclature used in the legislation, generates different interpretations by taxpayers causing the taxman questions on recognition of that cost. Given these facts, we attempted to study the impact that the non-cumulative because the results of companies segregating them for industrial, commercial and service delivery branch. As a result of the survey conducted, it was found that, for these companies in the industrial and commercial sectors, noncumulative reached their goals relieving the supply chain, but the understated way, because only deducts the credits listed in the law. As for the two analyzed service providers, who are bound to non-cumulative contributions of the non-cumulative only led to higher cumulative systematic payments. Through the analysis performed it is concluded that the first non-cumulative must be exercised in full and unrestricted manner, as it is the essence of the Principle of Non Cumulativity and more, the taxpayer must have the free decision choose to be cumulative or non-cumulative, thereby exerting an efficient and effective tax administration / A n??o cumulatividade surgiu com o objetivo de desonerar a cadeia produtiva. O sistema cumulativo ainda ?? aplicado, por??m muitos estudiosos afirmam que essa forma de tributa????o ?? prejudicial ?? sociedade, pois tem efeito cascata . Quando da elabora????o da lei que determina sobre a n??o cumulatividade do PIS/COFINS (Programa de Integra????o Social/ Contribui????o para Financiamento da Seguridade Social), o legislador criou a obrigatoriedade dessa sistem??tica atrelada ?? forma de apura????o do Imposto de Renda. Assim, empresas tributadas no Lucro Real est??o obrigadas a apurar suas contribui????es sociais na forma n??o cumulativa, por outro lado, empresas que est??o no Lucro Presumido ter??o as al??quotas cumulativas para o PIS/COFINS. Al??m disso, a legisla????o elencou pontualmente quais seriam os cr??ditos e insumos permitidos para desonerar a cadeia produtiva. Essas atitudes causaram um desencontro com os objetivos gerais da cria????o da n??o cumulatividade, isto porque, ao definir quais cr??ditos s??o permitidos para desconto, n??o h?? aplicabilidade plena do Princ??pio da N??o Cumulatividade. E mais, segregar a apura????o em cumulativo e n??o cumulativo com base na apura????o do lucro estipula um n??mero de contribuintes desuniformes, com caracter??sticas distintas e principalmente com custos/despesas divergentes. Ressalta-se ainda que a tomada de cr??dito sob a rubrica insumo, nomenclatura utilizada na legisla????o, gera diversas interpreta????es por parte dos contribuintes ocasionando questionamentos do Fisco sob o reconhecimento desse custo. Diante desses fatos, buscou-se estudar os impactos que a n??o cumulatividade causa nos resultados das empresas segregando-as por ramo industrial, comercial e de presta????o de servi??o. Como consequ??ncia do levantamento efetuado, identificou-se que, para estas empresas dos setores industriais e comerciais, a n??o cumulatividade atingiu seus objetivos desonerando a cadeia produtiva, por??m de forma suavizada, pois deduz apenas os cr??ditos elencados em lei. J?? para os dois prestadores de servi??o analisados, que s??o obrigados a n??o cumulatividade das contribui????es, a n??o cumulatividade s?? ocasionou pagamentos superiores ?? sistem??tica cumulativa. Atrav??s da an??lise efetuada conclui-se que primeiramente a n??o cumulatividade deve ser exercida de forma plena e irrestrita, tal qual ?? a ess??ncia do Princ??pio da N??o Cumulatividade e mais, o contribuinte deve ter a livre decis??o em optar por ser cumulativo ou n??o cumulativo, exercendo assim uma gest??o tribut??ria eficiente e efetiva

Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-03T18:35:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Renata_Joyce_Theodoro.pdf: 1357930 bytes, checksum: 54705fca8944a34b97e4748ffab125f9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-04-17 / The research objective is to determine the tax advantage of the goodwill in the corporate restructuring operations and its relevance in decision making by businesses. The research methodology is classified qualitatively and quantitatively; the first held by the literature and document review; effected by the second crossing of the information collected. With the combination of these techniques was possible to achieve the research objective. Most of the improper use of tax goodwill in corporate restructuring operations has been identified by the amount of tax credit released on assessments due by practitioners and companies planning abusive. However, this credit also reveals the importance of the use of goodwill in these operations if it were representative of a tax elision economy. The feared extinction of goodwill did not occur, but their deduction was maintained only for transactions that occurred between unrelated parties. / O objetivo da pesquisa ?? apurar o aproveitamento tribut??rio do ??gio nas opera????es de reorganiza????o societ??ria e a sua relev??ncia na tomada de decis??o pelas empresas. A metodologia da pesquisa ?? classificada qualitativa e quantitativamente; a primeira realizada pela revis??o bibliogr??fica e documental; a segunda efetivada pelo cruzamento das informa????es coletadas. Com a combina????o dessas t??cnicas foi poss??vel atingir o objetivo da pesquisa. Na sua maioria, o aproveitamento tribut??rio indevido do ??gio nas opera????es de reorganiza????o societ??ria foi identificado pelo montante de cr??dito tribut??rio lan??ado em autua????es e devido pelas empresas praticantes de planejamentos abusivos. Em contrapartida, referido cr??dito tamb??m revela a import??ncia do aproveitamento do ??gio nessas opera????es se fosse representativo de uma economia elisiva tribut??ria. A temida extin????o do ??gio n??o ocorreu, mas sua dedu????o foi mantida apenas para as opera????es ocorridas entre partes independentes

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-04-16T12:55:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Carvalho Samuel.pdf: 1413097 bytes, checksum: d3b8ae87bd24dcc277a3330975dd6eb7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-16T12:55:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Carvalho Samuel.pdf: 1413097 bytes, checksum: d3b8ae87bd24dcc277a3330975dd6eb7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-02 / The present dissertation has two main objectives, namely: the analysis of the main parameters for the protection of the environment through the imposition of inductive norms grounded on the extrafiscal exercise of tax competences and, likewise, a study on the institution of contributions for economic intervention and its enforceability as a mechanism of insourcing environmental costs in potentially polluting economic activities. In this context, it will be sought to reconcile environmental taxation with limitations imposed by the legal order, as well as a comparative study of the Brazilian reality with the experience of comparative law / O presente trabalho possui dois principais objetivos, que são: a análise dos parâmetros basilares para a proteção do meio ambiente por meio da imposição de normas indutoras fundadas no exercício extrafiscal das competências tributárias e, outrossim, o estudo dos requisitos intrínsecos para a instituição de contribuições de intervenção no domínio econômico e sua aplicabilidade como ferramenta de internalização de custos ambientais em atividades econômicas potencialmente poluidoras. Neste contexto, buscar-se-á compatibilizar a imposição tributária ambiental com as limitações impostas pelo próprio ordenamento jurídico, assim como tecer um breve estudo comparativo da realidade brasileira com a experiência do direito comparado