Burdensome and Incoherent Taxes and Arbitrary Collection Procedures Sample Clauses

Burdensome and Incoherent Taxes and Arbitrary Collection Procedures. Individual and business taxes are high and unsustainable in the long run. This has been one of the themes behind corruption, and has fostered cynicism and circumvention of the system, as alluded to frequently above. A strong need exists for substantially lower taxes that are fairly collected and enforced, which would reduce the informal sector and probably increase the government’s net revenue. Whether analysis would prove this viable is beside the point, however, as the existing system penalizes legitimate businesses. This becomes a serious constraint on formal assistance programs that must work with registered enterprises and private sector entrepreneurs who are openly accountable. Therefore, good prospects for assistance may prefer not to work with international donors or to participate in business development initiatives become transparent to tax authorities. This may also be a deterrent to successful capital market initiatives and to business credit activities that would require financial accountability. However, this is a constraint not a roadblock as many new businesses are registering and attempting to work within the system as demonstrated by the official statistics on private enterprise and SME trends described earlier. Basic tax rates on income and business profits are not out of line with many European nations or the United States. Certainly reforms are needed in terms of contributions to the Social Fund and a variety of other funds that complicate tax administration while adding to the total tax burden, but fundamental income levies are not exceptional. The crucial problem rests on methods of tax collection and control over a series of 20 or more different types of taxes. In addition, the government’s approach to enforcement is misdirected by imposing heavy and capricious penalties on taxpayers. Specifically, a business can be penalized up to 100 percent of any understated income claimed as taxable, and a business enterprise accountant responsible for filing tax statements can be personally fined under a criminal liability for up to 30 times the person’s base monthly salary. These two penalties can be imposed without due process, but simply at will by the tax inspectorate. Consequently, the penalty system does not discourage improper accounting. To the contrary, it encourages greater tax evasion through hidden books, and it provides more opportunities for extortion by tax collectors. The problem of capriciousness and payoff demands in the tax ...
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