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    Contemporary Issues in Taxation
    Contemporary Issues in Taxation
    Contemporary Issues in Taxation
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    Contemporary Issues in Taxation

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    This book is all about public finance and contemporary issues in taxation. The book discusses about contemporary issues in taxation that cater across all developing countries as well as discusses the concept of public debts and balance of payments. These are related issues that are critical for the economic development of a country. Students undertaking their undergraduate studies, postgraduate studies, and professional studies will find the book to be useful and full of knowledge in the various issues that affect taxation in their countries.
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    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateApr 10, 2018
    ISBN9781546291084
    Contemporary Issues in Taxation
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    Lucky Yona

    Professor Dr. Lucky Yona lectures at Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI) in Arusha, Tanzania. He holds a PhD in Finance from EurAka Univeristy in Switzerland, a Doctor of Business Administration (D.B.A.), a master’s degree in Business Administration (M.B.A.) as well as a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) from Maastricht School of Management (MsM). Professor Yona’s undergraduate accomplishments include a bachelor’s degree in Commerce and a bachelor’s degree of Theology. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an experienced consultant and international trainer. Lucky has published several finance and accounting books and numerous articles in internationally known, peer-reviewed journals. Prior to joining ESAMI, Lucky worked with a variety of reputable institutions and companies at the senior management level. Some of these positions included serving as Director of Research and Publication for Esami, Financial Administrator for African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), Business Manager for International School of Moshi (now United World Colleges, East Africa), College Bursar for Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College and Chief Accountant at Iscor Mining. In addition to these distinguished positions, Dr. Yona taught Financial Accounting and Taxation at Nyegezi Social Training Institute (now St. Augustine University in Tanzania). He is now involved in teaching various MBA courses at Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI) Business School—a prestigious institution serving ten African Countries. (Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Seychelles and Eswatini).

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      Contemporary Issues in Taxation - Lucky Yona

      CONTEMPORARY

      ISSUES IN

      TAXATION

      Lucky Yona

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      AuthorHouse™ UK

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      © 2018 . All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 04/09/2018

      ISBN: 978-1-5462-9109-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5462-9108-4 (e)

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      Preface

      Chapter 1: Overview of Taxation

      Chapter 2: Developing Tax Policies

      Chapter 3: Tax Administration

      Chapter 4: Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance

      Chapter 5: Tax Planning

      Chapter 6: Tax Reforms

      Chapter 7: Tax Incentives

      Chapter 8: Investment Climate

      Chapter 9: Tax Compliance

      Chapter 10: Tax Harmonization

      Chapter 11: Tax Investigation

      Chapter 12: Widening the Tax Base

      Chapter 13: Tax Exmption

      Chapter 14: Foreign Debt

      Chapter 15: Balance of Payments

      Bibliography

      About the Author

      Preface to First Edition

      This book is all about public finance and contemporary issues in Taxation. The book discusses about contemporary issues in Taxation that cater across all developing countries as well as it discusses the concept of public debts and balance of payments related issues that are critical for economic development of a country. Students undertaking their undergraduate studies, postgraduate and professional studies will find the book to be useful and full of knowledge in the various issues that affect taxation of their countries.

      Dedicated

      To My Sons Lucky Yona Jr and Timothy Lucky

      1. OVERVIEW OF TAXATION

      □ Topic Objectives

      The topic intends to equip students with general overview of concepts and theories of taxation

      □ Coverage

      1.1 Introduction

      1.2 Why Taxation is important

      1.3 Tax classification

      1.4 Tax Systems

      1.5 Principles of Taxation

      1.6 Overview of Taxation in Selected African Countries

      Practice Questions

      □ Learning Outcome

      At the end of this topic, students will have understood the role of taxation and rationale of paying taxes

      CHAPTER 1

      Overview of Taxation

      1.1. INTRODUCTION

      Taxation had existed since long time when kingdoms as a form of leadership and governance started in the history of human beings. Although the collection of taxes was not in the form of money as it is today, it existed in other forms of exchange that was prevailing at that time. During the era of barter trade, taxpayer paid commodities. In the times when silver and gold was the means of exchange taxpayers paid the same. Looking at the history of kingdoms across the world, we can see that king’s collected goods, silver, gold and other items as head taxes from citizens. Even the Bible contains records of various kingdoms like Solomon kingdom where the Israelites had to pay taxes. It looks that not all tax collections were voluntary but enforced upon the taxpayers.

      With this knowledge of taxation, we can also review various definitions of tax. One of the definitions is the one, which considers tax as a compulsory contribution to the government by corporate and none- corporate citizens to support government expenditure to meet the expenditures on public services. The corporate citizens include individual and corporations. This definition, therefore, gives an indication that taxation is not a voluntary action that taxpayers are expected to be willing to contribute their part of the income to the government. Tax is also chargeable on properties, commodities, and transactions. Jonathan (2006) argues that tax is among the means of public resources mobilization; therefore, designing a tax system should provide incentives for economic growth and increase revenue collection.

      On the other side, we can say taxation is a voluntary and a compulsory contribution of money from individuals and corporate entity to the government to meet the public expenditure. This definition of tax gives a broader meaning by including the word voluntary, meaning that the government does not always force taxpayers to pay the taxes, but they may opt not to pay or pay the taxes. Literary it is true that they are free to pay taxes or not, but in essence, it cannot be voluntary when they consume the products. They are automatically forced to pay taxes when they consume goods and services of which taxes are chargeable to them.

      1.2. WHY TAXATION IS IMPORTANT

      The only major way in which governments can raise funds to support its public expenditures is through taxation. The question, which governments need to answer, is what does government spending mean? Government spending includes all expenditures, which is the provision of social services, maintenance of law and order; provide defense and other undertakings, which the private sector cannot provide.

      Countries, which cannot raise enough funds through taxation, are likely to have difficulties in meeting the public expenditure. Most developing countries due to inability to correct enough taxes have experienced problems of funding their operations and development budgets and tend to rely on donors to support their budget. In Africa, for example, very few countries like Kenya, by 2009 had successfully managed to fund its budget by 100%, while Tanzania managed to fund its budget by only 65% and the rest was from donor funds.

      Many countries use Taxation as a policy instrument to protect local industries. In this case, consumer of imported goods pays high taxes while local products produced by local industries enjoy preferential tax rates lower than the ones of imported goods. Charging high taxes on imported goods makes the prices of local products cheaper than imported ones. However, in the modern days where there are regional integrations such as the East Africa Community and tax harmonization within the member countries in the integration, taxation is used to protect the industries of the member states.

      Governments can also use taxation as an instrument of discouraging certain habits, which are considered harmful to the public such as the use of tobacco, cigarettes, spirits, and alcohol by imposing high taxes on consumptions of these types of products. The major argument or question to this objective is this; why should the government put laws that prohibit the use of these products if they are harmful to the citizens? The answer to this question is that the government must raise enough revenue from various sources. At the same time, people have the freedom to make choices what products they should consume or not consume.

      At the same time, the government uses taxation as an instrument of mobilizing and accumulating capital from the general public and concentrating the wealth to the use of governments in capital development projects and investments. The Government cannot spend all its funds in re-current expenditure, but part of the funds collected through taxation can be for development and investments such as the construction of infrastructures such as roads, dam construction, and power generation plant.

      Another justification is on the basis of wealth distribution among citizens in the given society. Governments achieve this through taxing rich people and providing services to the majority of the public, consistent with progressive taxation where individuals with high income will pay higher taxes and those with income will pay less tax. On the other side, the government uses tax to help allocate the available resources in the country to bring development in those geographical areas, which are underdeveloped. As a strategy by a government to ensure even distribution of development in a country, more resources through taxation means will be given to such areas to support infrastructure development and economic projects.

      1.3 TAX CLASSIFICATION

      There are various types of tax classification, which are useful to understand the tax as used under various tax jurisdictions. These classifications of taxes can be done in a number of ways to help policy maker to come up with tax systems that are favorable to both government and taxpayers.

      HEAD TAX

      Tax levied on the existence of a taxpayer, such as a levy of a certain amount paid by all individuals over minor age. This is not so common in most tax jurisdictions. Countries like Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda during colonial regimes had head taxes levied on individual above 18 years.

      INCOME TAX

      The charge of the tax is on individual income or corporate income. The income tax on individual is termed as Pay as you earn (P.A.Y.E) although some countries have other types of taxes levied on individuals. Taxation on the corporation is levied on both residents and non-residents companies. Tax rate varies from among various tax jurisdictions. Some tax jurisdictions have the same rate of income taxes for all types of companies while others have different rate depending on the resident status of the company. Income taxes are progressive in nature simply because they are payable depending on the income level of the taxpayer. The principle applicable is that the higher the incomes pay more taxes and vice versa. In terms of compliance, governments do not experience much challenges in compliance by taxpayers.

      COMMODITY TAXES

      These taxes are payable based on commodities. As people consume the product they pay taxes without or with the knowledge that taxes is included in the price of the product. Example of commodity taxes includes the Value added tax and sales taxes. Commodities taxes are regressive taxes where people with less income have more pinch than the ones

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