Samrawit Proposals
Samrawit Proposals
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Prepared By: - Samrawit Meragiyaw 02906
February, 2023
Dessie, Ethiopia
1. Introduction
According to Lee and Richard (1998), in different tax regimes of many countries, taxes are
levied on different sources of income classified in to some number of segments. Largely,
countries set their source of income tax taxpayers in to small, medium, and large taxpayers
mainly depending on the amount of income derived by the taxpayers. Tax law frameworks of
different countries including Ethiopia provide specific rules governing the assessment method,
tax rate, accounting period, deduction, exemption, and other related guidelines for each of the
above listed group of taxpayers. Although the impacts of application of different types of income
tax assessment mechanisms would also deserve discussion, the theme of this article is on the
‘efficiency ‘of the standard assessment as implemented for assessing income tax liability of the
small businesses.
To assess the VAT revenue productivity over the period 2023 A.D in case of Dessie towns.
To assess the major factors affecting VAT revenue productivity in Ethiopia.
To identify the problems associated with tax collectors related to tax assessment and
collection
to drive and implement appropriate policies for enhancing VAT productivity and improve
the tax system
The following are some of the limitation that is occurs while conducting the study.
Tax assessment refers to the initial review by the tax authority of the tax declaration and
attached supplementary documents submitted by a taxpayer and verification of the arithmetical
and technical accuracy of the declared tax liability and tax payable shortly after the submission
of the declaration. An inefficient tax administration weakens the willingness of the taxpayers to
comply and create room for political manipulation and in the process the government losses
revenue. (Bird), According to Musgrave’s (1989), the solution to poor assessment and
registration method is to employ well trained and skilled personnel who are well paid and also to
employ good equipment like computers. That is the basis for efficient tax administration lies in
the choice of appropriate technology and clear administrative procedures, good methods of
conducting tax payer registration, assessment and the provision of public goods. [3]
A tax is a compulsory levy made by public authorities for which nothing is received directly in
return. Taxes are, therefore, transfers of money to the public sector, but they exclude loan
transactions and direct payments for publicly produced goods and services. The classification by
nominal source of taxation meaning by the way of collecting taxes can be direct and indirect
A VAT taxes the value-added in production through the various stages of production. Value
added is simply the difference between the value of the goods and services sold and the value of
goods and services purchased as intermediate inputs. Under a VAT, the sum of purchases and
value added by the firm itself equals (by definition) the value of the inputs (which have a full tax
credit attached to them) of the next firm in the production distribution process. As a result, the
same value-added is never taxed twice; that is, cumulative effects do not occur. Moreover, at the
final retail stage the sum of all values added throughout the process and, by the same token, the
sum of all the differences between sales and pure has equal the consumer price, excluding tax.
The final price, that is the price paid by consumers, has therefore to cover all the values added at
the successive stages. VAT thus provides a systematic mechanism for taxing final consumption
while relieving transactions in intermediate goods. In comparison, the retail sale tax is levied
only at the time of sale to the consumer. The total tax collected piecemeal under the V AT from
all stages of production and distribution is equal to a tax collected on the sale from retailer to the
final consumer or user, that is, a retailer-sales-tax. This equivalence has sometimes led to a VAT
being term a national sales tax (Metcalf, 1995:123 cited in Bergen, 1995).
There are three alternative methods of VAT computation. These are the addition method, the
invoice-based credit method and subtraction method. By the addition, the tax liability is equal to
the tax rate multiplied by the value added defined as the sum of wages and profits. By the
subtraction method, the tax liability at any stage is equal to the tax rate multiplied by the tax base
or value added measured as the difference between the values of outputs and inputs. The final
one is the invoice-based credit method. Under the invoice based credit method, a firm at any
Even though the ultimate burden of VAT falls on the final consumer, VAT is collected by the
government from all sectors, that is, from import, manufacturing, who sales and retail sectors.
Therefore, it is a more comprehensive and equitable tax system.
Under VAT system, the tax is collected in small fragment at different stages of production and
sales.
VAT is a consumption tax since one pay VAT on its expenditure and has the option to save so
as not to be taxed. Furthermore, relief from tax on capital goods may encourage investment.
Potential investors also consider tax legislation as one of the factors in making investment
decision.
➢ It enhances exports
Exports of goods and services in most countries that implement VAT are liable to VAT at zero-
rate. This may make export internationally competitive and, thus, encourages export.
In this type of VAT, taxes paid on purchases of capital goods fixed capitals and
depreciations there to are not allowed to be refunded. If a person registered for VAT
purchases equipment’s, buildings, different machineries, though there exists obvious
depreciation value rebut is prohibited this type of VAT is not common as it raises stiff
resistance on the part of tax payers
Here, again refund ion the purchase value of capital goods is prohibited like in case of goods
product type of treatment. But, unlike the previous one, it allows refund on the periodic
allowance for the depreciation value of capital goods.
This type of VAT is the most used and widely accepted one. It is almost prevalent in most
states of the world. This is basically related with the fact that all business purchases including
that of capital goods and related depreciations are allowed to be rebated. Thus, it is accepted
easily on the part of the community subject to VAT registration. Stated otherwise in this kind
of VAT, there is no discrimination among tax payers.
Time Budget
Time plan or time budget is a time table explaining how the researcher expected to carry out his
project. It is a time table explaining how the researcher expected to carry out his project. It is a
plan in a term of months and expected completion.
1 Title Selection
2 Proposal writing
3 Proposal
submission
4 Data Collection
5 Data processing
and analyzing
Cost Budget
There are different cost table incurred to undertake this study. The researcher estimates the
following minimum cost per item.
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