This article aims to open the debate on the recurrent property tax in the Czech Republic, to define most important problems of the existing legal regulation and to set the list of possible solutions de lege ferenda. The hypothesis that the immovable property tax is a good tax and a traditional...

The purpose of this paper is to give a recommendation to the municipalities what local tax/taxes sensu largo (a waste charge or an immovable property tax increased by a local coefficient) are to be collected to achieve expected and necessary incomes and limit the administrative costs. To reach...

The article is a reaction to the intention of the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic to propose a draft amendment to the Real Estate Tax Act, which could cause a revolution in the assessment of tax base. After outlining the different models for tax base and tax rate assessment of land tax...

This contribution introduces ecological aspects in the Czech property taxes de lege lata regulation and presents possible approaches for the regulation de lege ferenda. The text deals to some extent with the energy taxes, and ecological aspects in income taxation and value added taxation. The...

This chapter deals with economical autonomy of municipalities in the Czech Republic and tries to give the definition of local tax. The chapter is relatively critical, because municipalities in the Czech Republic do not have enough possibilities to get money they need from local taxes. The local...

The urbanisation is connected with the higher costs of cities for the management, because they are responsible for local infrastructure and services. The legal regulation of local taxes and especially the infrastructure charge in the Czech Republic is not sufficient. The sources for local...

The main aim of the paper is to analyze the constitutional backgrounds of the local taxes´ legal regulation, assessment, and collection in the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic. The paper starts with the general constitutional regulation of taxes and continues with the critical analyses of...