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...

Should we exempt the services of insurance companies from VAT? Addressing this issue, the paper distinguishes between insurance against a general loss of resources and a loss of a specific commodity (property insurance). There is a case for exempting the former kind of insurance, but not the...

The issue of collecting tax resources to the consolidated budget has determined and still determines difficulties which cannot be neglected in all the former socialist countries of the Central and Eastern Europe. From the Members States of the European Union, Romania is the country with the...

Eine über das bereits erreichte Mass hinausgehende Harmonisierung der europäischen Umsatzsteuersysteme ist Voraussetzung für die Abschaffung der Grenzkontrollen innerhalb der Europäischen Gemeinschaft; sie bildet damit ein Kernstück der für 1992 anvisierten Vollendung des europäischen...