Taxation

Teachers

Included in study programs

Teaching results

• Upon successful completion of the course, students will have a comprehensive view of the use of taxes as an important tool of economic policy of the state.
• Students will be able to use basic procedures for calculating the tax liability of natural and legal persons.
• Students will understand the basic knowledge and context not only in the field of economics with a focus on finance, banking, and insurance, but also economic, social and regional policy, public and corporate finance and tax theory and policy.
• Students will have the ability to process empirical analyzes and forecasts using mathematical-statistical apparatus and methodological procedures.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Knowledge:
a / understand that the process of assessment and collection of taxes is governed by certain rules - tax principles, respectively principles.
b / understand that the adoption of measures in the field of taxation is closely connected with the applied economic policy of the state,
c / understand the basic procedure of personal income taxation, adjustment of the tax base and the final tax liability of natural persons,
d / assess the tax aspect of the deductibility / non-deductibility of the expense (cost) in connection with the determination of the physical tax base, respectively legal person,
e / apply the basic mechanisms for determining the tax liability of property taxes as well as motor vehicle taxes.
f / understand and apply the VAT mechanism in tax practice - in the country, in the EU as well as
in contact with third countries,
g / use a professional conceptual apparatus and master basic tax skills,
h / understand the basic principles and procedures of taxation of goods subject to excise duties.
ch/ to acquire and understand essential facts, concepts, principles, and theories related to the functioning of the national economy, public and business finance, taxes, the banking and insurance sectors.
Competences:
a / make proper use of specific technical terms used in the field of tax theory and policy,
b / master general knowledge and skills in the field of taxation to create a precondition for students to acquire further cognitive and individual knowledge,
c / to create a theoretical and application basis for the dissemination of knowledge in the field of all taxes to students at the 2nd level of study, will be implemented by specialized subjects taught in the specialization Taxation.
d / ability to take a critical look at the implemented procedures and to further develop the professional aspects of one is social and working life,
e / the ability to adopt a culture of thinking and cognition, as well as to work in diverse groups of professional teams.
Skills:
a / calculate and interpret the amount of the tax burden of entities at the national and international level,
b / quantify the partial bases of personal income tax, adjust the common tax base of natural person,
c / calculate and adjust the final tax liability of natural person,
d / get acquainted with the structure and content of the tax return of a natural person,
e / clarify the system of determining and adjusting the corporate tax base,
f / calculate the tax base and tax for property taxes, get acquainted with the content and structure of the tax return for real estate tax,
g / understand the principle of motor vehicle taxation,
h / explain the principle of operation and calculation of VAT in the country, the EU, in third countries,
ch / perform basic calculations related to excise taxes.
i / specify and propose measures concerning the change of policies of management entities, work with standard tools of economic and financial policy used in decision-making of public and private sector entities,
j / to maintain contact with the latest development according to the focus of the study program and to continue the study smoothly at the 2nd level of study.

Indicative content

Lectures
1. Clarify the objectives of state tax policy and the issue of tax optimization. To explain
tax principles.
2. Calculate the tax burden of entities.
3. Characterize the tax, criteria of division and redistribution of taxes, categorize the valid Slovak tax system.
4. Explain and apply to the conditions of practice the basic and secondary features of taxes.
5. To characterize the income tax of a natural person, to categorize the income into groups according to the type of income, to calculate the common tax base.
6. Adjust the common tax base for non-taxable parts of the tax base, calculate the tax liability and adjust the calculated tax for tax bonuses.
7. Clarify the principles of corporate income taxation, adjustment of the tax base for addable and deductible items, calculation of corporate tax.
8. Assess and analyze the tax deductibility of expenses (costs) of entities.
9. Define, categorize, and apply the issue of local taxes.
10. Explain and interpret the position of value added tax in the national as well as in
internationally.
11. Explain the principles of applying VAT in the internal market, in relations with EU Member States as well as with third countries.
12. Clarify the mechanism of operation of VAT in the country.
13. Outline the position and system of calculation of excise taxes in the tax system of the Slovak Republic.

Active form of teaching:
1. Introduction - organizational instructions.
2. Basic terminology, general information about the Slovak tax system, functions and
requirements of taxes, introduction to income tax propaedeutics.
3. Personal income tax - monthly tax period.
4. Non - taxable part of the tax base - theory and personal income tax - annual tax period.
5. Personal income tax - annual tax period.
6. Corporate income tax - annual tax period.
7. Personal and corporate income tax - annual tax period - summary and recurrence.
8. First semester test on the issue of income tax. Property taxes.
9. Motor vehicle tax.
10. VAT.
11. VAT, excise duties.
12. Second semester test on the issue of property taxes and VAT.
13. Corrective semester test.

Support literature

Povinná
Juraj Válek – Marcela Rabatinová – Jana Kušnírová – Denisa Ihnatišinová : Daňovníctvo; 2. vydanie; Bratislava: Wolters Kluwer, 2023, ISBN 978-80-7676-736-2
Jana Kušnírová – Juraj Válek : Daňovníctvo. Zbierka riešených a neriešených príkladov, 2. vydanie, Bratislava: Wolters Kluwer, 2023, ISBN 978-80-571-0594-7
Odporúčaná
SALANIÉ,B. Economics of Taxation (2003). Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0262-19486-0.
Tax Policy Design:
Bird, Richard M. and Wilkie, J. Scott (2012): Designing Tax Policy: Constraints and Objectives in an Open Economy. International Center for Public Policy (IECPP) Working Paper 78. April 2012, https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/icepp/78
EU Tax Policy:
European Union, 2015: Taxation – promoting the internal market and economic growth: towards simple, fair and efficient taxation in the European union. https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2016-09/taxation_internal_market_en.pdf
Fact sheets on the European Union: General tax policy https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/92/general-tax-policy
Fact sheets on the European Union: Indirect taxation https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/81/indirect-taxation
Fact sheets on the European Union: Direct taxation: Personal and Company Taxation https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/80/direct-taxation-personal-and-company-taxation
EU Tax Harmonization:
Nerudova, Danuše. (2004). Tax competition and tax harmonization in the European Union. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis. 52. 135-144. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276349665_Tax_competition_and_tax_harmonization_in_the_European_Union
Tax Principles:
OECD (2014), Addressing the Tax Challenges of the Digital Economy, OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project, OECD Publishing (chapter 2 – Fundamental principles of taxation), http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264218789-en
AICPA (2017). Guiding principles of good tax policy: A framework for evaluating tax proposals. Tax Policy Concept Statement 1. Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, 2017. https://us.aicpa.org/content/dam/aicpa/advocacy/tax/downloadabledocuments/tax-policy-concept-statement-no-1-global.pdf
Články vo vedeckých časopisoch.
Články v odborných časopisoch.
Internetové zdroje.

Requirements to complete the course

Active forms of teaching 40%:
• Individual work, activity 5%
• Continuous papers 35%
Written exam 60%

Student workload

Total student workload in hours - daily: 6x26 = 156 hours
Independent load for individual educational activities: participation in lectures 26 h, participation in exercises 26 h, preparation for exercises 13 h, problem solving and activity in exercises 13 h, preparation for continuous papers 26 h, preparation for exam 52 h.

Language whose command is required to complete the course

slovak

Date of approval: 06.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 14.09.2023