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Cordelia Omodero
INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY TAXATION AND TAX EARNINGS IN A LOW-INCOME ECONOMY
Summary:
Over the years, information and communication technology has made its way into industrialized countries, and through technology transfer, it is also rapidly expanding in less developed ones. These technology advances provide distinct economic benefits to emerging countries such as Nigeria. Aside from market expansion, the advancement of information and communication technology has raised government revenue through the establishment of a specific fee on the revenues of corporations involved in broad technologically based operations. The primary goal of this research is to investigate the influen¬ce of national information communication technology development taxation on general tax income in Nigeria. This study covers a period from 2010 to 2019 using data gathered from OECD and FIRS statistics. The dependent variable is the total tax revenue and the predictor variables are the national information technology development levy (NITDL) or tax and trade openness. Using the regression analysis tool, the study finds that NITDL contributes positively and significantly to total tax income at 1% level of significance while trade openness contributes to tax revenue at 10% significance level. Both outcomes are significant and commendable. The policy implication is that the government should support all information communication technology growth in the country for more inflow of international business links and for tax revenue growth in the country. The study recommends stable power supply for effective application of information communication technologies such internet network, website developments and effective operations.
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Alexandrina Alexandrova
EUROPEAN TAX PRACTICE IN VAT APPLICATION - ANALYTICAL ASPECTS
Summary:
The European Union is among the largest supranational economic and integration structures whose main priority is to create conditions for free movement of capital, goods and labour within the single market. Taxation is one of the most complicated and controversial problems of the economic policy of the Union, as taxes are the main source of budget revenues and their value largely depends on the budget and social policies of the specific Member State, as well as the Community. As a major source of revenue budget for both the national and the European fiscal systems, value added tax creates the necessity for thorough examination and analysis of the specifics of its regulations and the amount of the applicable in EU tax rates.
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Ishola Ayobami Olatunji, Cordelia Omodero
THE ROLE OF TAXATION IN PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
Summary:
This research examined the nexus between taxation and sustainable development in Nigeria. The study’s specific objectives were to investigate how company income tax, petroleum profit tax, and value added tax would affect sustainable development, measured by per capita income, in Nigeria. Secondary data from 1994 till 2022 and sourced from the annual report of the Nigerian Federal Inland Revenue Services was utilized for the study. The sourced data was estimated using the Vector Error Correction Model. The unit root test showed that all the variables were stationary at first difference and the Johansen Cointegration revealed a long run relationship among the variables. Findings showed that company income tax, petroleum profit tax, and value added tax positively and significantly impact per capita income. The research, therefore, recommended that the government should ensure that tax funds are utilized for infrastructural and economic developmental objectives as it would facilitate Nigeria’s economic development.
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Boyko Petev
Specific Vat Regimes in the EU - Methodical Cases and Solutions
Summary:
The differences in tax systems of the member-states of the European Union as well as the specific VAT regimes require passing through varying degrees of approximation, including the complete unification of some of them in order to improve tax collection. Thus the legal framework of the tax system of the EU sets taxes common to every state and those which reflect national specificities and exist only by virtue of tradition or by the peculiarities of the economy of the country. They inherently have unique problems and differ from one another because the parties are free to choose a tax system that is considered to be the most effective for their conditions, provided that the general rules are observed.
