The size of tax evasion and fraud appears to be increasing steadily in the EU. To a certain extent, the completion of single market has further encouraged firms' and households' evading behaviour of paying value added taxes in the EU member states, while such efforts have traditionally been most...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die quantitativen Efgekte der jüngst vom ECOFIN-Rat beschlossenen Übergangsregelung für die umsatzsteuerliche Behandlung des Handels in der EG nach 1992. Zunächst werden die Funktionsweise des bisherigen Bestimmungslandprinzips und der neuen Regelung beschrieben und...

An important question is whether VAT exemption of financial services is a desirable property or whether it is justified only due to practical and administrative necessity. This paper singles out a number of financial services for discussion of this issue in a context allowing for other taxes and...

One of the most serious problems of fiscal character is the issue of the tax gap. The tax gap is defined as the amount of tax liability faced by taxpayers that is not paid on time. The tax gap comes from three main areas of noncompliance with the tax law − firstly from underreporting of...

The size of tax evasion and fraud appears to be increasing steadily in the EU. To a certain extent, the completion of Single Market has further encouraged firms' and households' evasive behaviour in paying value added taxes in the EU Member States, whereas such efforts have traditionally been...

In der Europäischen Union dominiert trotz des gemeinsamen Marktes immer noch das Bestimmungslandprinzip die Umsatzbesteuerung. Erhebungstechnisch wurde 1993 jedoch das Übergangssystem eingeführt. Mit dem Ziel der Schaffung eines endgültigen Systems verbindet sich der Wechsel vom...