“一带一路”沿线国家税收竞争力对中国对外直接投资的影响

"一带一路"沿线国家税收竞争力对中国对外直接投资具有重要影响。实证研究发现,"一带一路"沿线国家税收竞争力的提升显著促进了中国对外直接投资的增加。因而,中国政府应致力于加强国际税收合作与区域协调,构建"共商、共建、共享"税收新体系;为企业投资"一带一路"沿线国家(地区)提供优质的跨境涉税服务和税务风险预警指引,从宏观上引导企业对外直接投资健康发展;完善国内税收政策体系以提升国际税收竞争力,更好吸引外来投资;企业应密切关注东道国税收政策变化,有效防范风险,利用"一带一路"倡议带来的机遇,积极拓展海外市场。     

在华外企的反避税审计策略研究

通过对转让定价、资本弱化、利用避税地以及选择公司组织形式等在华外企常用的避税方式和手段进行剖析,说明在以后相当长的时期内,应当将长期亏损、长期微利或跳跃性赢利却不断扩大经营规模的外资企业作为反避税审计的重点对象,并在提升立法层次、建立跨国合作机制、完善反转让定价税制、制定避税地和资本弱化税法、加强对电子商务税收问题的研究等方面来完善反避税审计策略。     

论逆向避税

随着世界经济一体化的程度不断提高 ,国际避税问题也日趋严重。如何防范国际避税已为各个国家和国际组织所重视 ,并成为国际税法中的一项核心问题。在本文中 ,笔者将探讨逆向避税———一种广泛存在于中国国内涉外企业中的国际避税行为。本文首先界定逆向避税的概念 ;其次分析逆向避税的动机和手段 ,并指出逆向避税造成的严重危害 ;最后结合我国税法实际构思相应对策税制及其它措施。     

同行业间避税与企业的战略反应——来自我国A股上市公司的经验证据

本文运用2007-2016年中国A股上市公司数据,引入同行业竞争者的股票异常回报作为工具变量,研究同行业竞争者避税行为对企业战略反应的影响。研究发现,相比国有企业,民营企业的同行业竞争者避税行为与企业避税存在战略互补效应,即同行业竞争者的避税行为越激进,企业会选择更加激进的避税策略。探究可能影响这种战略互补效应的机制,结果显示民营企业很可能会模仿同行业领导者等被认为避税行为更有效合理的竞争对手制定避税策略。进一步发现地理距离衰减有利于降低同行业信息收集成本,导致同行业间战略互补反应更显著,即同行业避税政策模仿具有“本土偏好”。本文提供了同行业竞争对企业避税影响的因果关系证据,揭示了同行业竞争者避税行为是企业避税行为的重要影响因素。     

税收法定原则的宪法植入方式

全面落实税收法定的政策要求与立法实践,保障着我国财税制度改革能够获得稳定的法律环境。然而,作为税法基本原则的税收法定主义在我国宪法中却未能得到确立,宪法第五十六条显然无法兼容"控制政府征税权"的逻辑基点。为使征税权控制获得根本法层面的正当性,并使宪法内容与改革所追求的社会秩序相适应,梳理和借鉴域外各国的经验模式,应当在宪法的"公民权利义务"章节和"人民代表大会职权"章节做出条款补充,以符合中国实际的小范围修宪的方式,稳妥地实现税收法定原则的宪法植入。     

Distinguishing closely held companies for taxation purposes: The Australian experience 1930-1972

Early in the life of Australia's income tax, the government, sensitive to loss of taxation revenue through artificial arrangements to divert taxable profits from individuals to companies where they would be taxed more lightly, saw fit to provide a special taxation regime for closely held companies. From the first attempts by the government to distinguish closely held companies for tax purposes in 1930, until the final legislative changes in 1972, there arose a highly unsatisfactory situation in which taxpayers sought, through increasingly artificial means, to subvert the legislative purpose with the aim of tax avoidance. The government's response throughout was inadequate in a number of respects, and fuelled the fires of tax avoidance through inept drafting of the relevant legislation and delayed treatment of perceived abuses by taxpayers.     

“营改增”能否促进企业价值提升

"营改增"通过打通增值税抵扣链条、消除重复征税等,对企业税负降低和专业化分工会产生一定的促进作用,进而能够显著提升企业价值。而交通运输业由于"营改增"前后适用税率差异较大,且固定资产更新周期较长带来的进项抵扣不足,使得"营改增"对其企业价值的影响程度反而不及现代服务业。与私营企业相比,国有企业更容易受到政府政策干预或扶持,对税收政策的敏感性不及私营企业,即"营改增"对私营企业的企业价值的影响程度显著高于国有企业。鉴于"营改增"对企业价值的促进作用,国家应继续优化增值税体系,保持税收政策在促进企业价值提升时政策红利的延续性;在推行增值税改革的过程中,要增加配套税收优惠政策,以弥补政策效应对某些行业激励不足的短板;此外,要加快国有企业改革,营造公平的营商环境,促进税收中性原则的有效发挥。     

我国推进增值税转型的对策及建议

我国入世后,随着企业竞争加剧,将增值税由"生产型"改为"消费型"成为必然,而推进我国增值税改革不仅需要改革分税制财政管理体制与地方税制体系、完善相关税制,还需要大力完善社会保障工作、完善税法,强化管理。     

Media negativity bias and tax compliance: experimental evidence

We study the impact of the media negativity bias on tax compliance. Through a framed laboratory experiment, we assess how the exposure to biased news about government action affects compliance in a repeated taxation game. Subjects treated with positive news are significantly more compliant than the control group. Instead, the exposure to negative news does not prompt any significant reaction compared to the neutral condition, suggesting that participants may perceive the media negativity bias in the selection and tonality of news as the norm rather than the exception. Overall, our results suggest that biased news provision is a constant source of psychological priming and plays a vital role in taxpayers’ compliance decisions.

     

我国最优宏观税负水平的实证分析及政策选择

以巴罗、斯库利模型为分析框架,通过相关分析和多元回归分析,进一步研究我国的宏观税负问题。实证研究结果表明：政府通过征税把资源从私人部门转移到公共部门使用的过程中,政府征税对经济产生的负面影响并没有被政府有效地使用税收对经济产生的正效应所抵消,而政府支出本身也对经济产生了负面的影响。从这个角度判断,我国宏观税负水平不是最优的。我国应该进一步完善相关的政策,调整财政体制,进行相应的税收改革。     

中国环境税的功能检视与立法路径

环境税因其具有有效筹集环保资金、调控污染与破坏环境资源的行为、提高经济增长质量和维护社会环境公平等功能而领先于传统的命令-控制型环境管理模式。但在推行中可能出现双重红利引发偏差、转嫁税负影响减排以及重效率轻公平等现象,产生功能异变。我国政府确立了税收手段保护和改善环境的治理思路,厘清环境税所具备的功能、防范其发生功能异变、明晰新形势下环境税的功能需求是引导我国环境税制顺利推行的前提。构建符合中国本土化的环境税制、实现环境税的功能应当从健全法律运行体制、明晰政府事权责划分以及完善保障性制度建设等方面进行探索和思考。     

Some Implications of Changing the Tax Basis for Pension Funds

Governments in many developed economies provide private pension plans with significant taxation incentives. However, as many retirement income systems are now being reviewed due to demographic, social and economic pressures, these taxation arrangements are also under scrutiny. This paper discusses some of the implications of the differences between the traditional taxation treatment adopted by most OECD nations and that adopted by Australia, where there is a tax on contributions, a tax on investment earnings and a tax on benefits. The results show that there are significant differences in the net value of the benefits received by individuals and the taxation revenue received by the government. On the other hand, it is shown that there is remarkably little to distinguish between the two tax structures in terms of summary measures of lifetime income, although the form in which the benefit is taken in retirement is significant in influencing intragenerational equity.     

政府财政激励、税收征管动机与企业盈余管理——以财政"省直管县"改革为自然实验的研究

政府对企业利润享有征税权,事实上是几乎所有企业的最大的中小股东,因此有动机对企业进行严格的税收征管,进而影响公司治理。本文以1998-2006年中国工业企业为样本,以财政“省直管县”改革为自然实验,从企业盈余管理的角度对此进行了考察。研究发现:财政“省直管县”改革能够显著抑制县辖区内企业的盈余管理行为,并且仅对具有征管权限的企业发挥作用;同时,当县级政府财政状况较差和税基较大时,财政“省直管县”对辖区内企业盈余管理行为的抑制作用更强,表明财政“省直管县”改革能够激励县级政府加强税收征管,进而改善辖区内企业盈余质量。更进一步地,本文还发现财政“省直管县”改革能够抑制企业逃税,提升县级政府财政收入。本文的研究不仅丰富了政府行为影响公司治理方面的文献,同时也为财政“省直管县”如何缓解县级政府财政困难提供了微观证据。     

Tax avoidance,tax management and corporate social responsibility

This study examines the effect of three measures of corporate social responsibility (CSR) — corporate governance, community and diversity on tax avoidance in firms that use auditor‐provided tax services. This is one of the first studies, to our knowledge, to empirically relate tax avoidance, tax management and CSR literature. By separating the strengths and concerns for each CSR measure, we are able to analyze the effects of a firm's negative and positive social actions on tax avoidance. We find that the interaction of community concerns with tax management fees positively affects both GAAP and Cash ETR, while the interaction of corporate governance strengths and diversity concerns with tax management fees negatively affects Cash ETR. Our results are similar when we use Excess ETR that is not explained by firm specifics. We find additional evidence that CSR affects tax avoidance when we divide firms into portfolios based on CSR levels. Our findings suggest that future studies on tax avoidance and tax management should incorporate CSR.     

Valuation implications of socially responsible tax avoidance: Evidence from the electricity industry

Prior literature suggests that firms may bear reputational costs associated with corporate tax avoidance, which could in turn reduce the net present value of firms’ tax planning strategies. However, these studies do not consider the fact that firms may have opportunities to avoid tax in socially responsible ways. We investigate the equity valuation implications of one form of socially responsible tax avoidance: claiming the renewable electricity production tax credit (PTC). We predict and find that investors more positively value tax savings generated from PTCs compared to other forms of corporate tax avoidance, consistent with the notion that socially responsible tax avoidance should not subject firms to reputational costs. Additionally, consistent with the role that CSR can play in enhancing a firm’s reputational capital, we find evidence of a spillover effect in which investors more positively value other sources of tax avoidance to the extent the firm also reduces its taxes in a socially responsible way. Our results demonstrate the importance for managers to consider socially responsible tax avoidance as a component of a firm’s tax planning portfolio and for policymakers to recognize the appeal of socially responsible tax strategies as the reputational consequences of tax avoidance become more prominent.     

商业战略选择、产权安排与企业避税行为

商业战略会通过影响一个公司对风险的态度进而影响公司的避税行为,从上述理论出发,文章研究了商业战略和避税行为之间的关系,发现与采用探索者战略的企业相比,采用防御者战略的企业避税行为更消极,也意味着防御者认为激进税收筹划带来的成本和不确定性超过了节税的收益。同时研究还发现,由于产权安排导致的避税激励差异,上述战略对于避税行为的影响主要存在于国有企业。     

税费替代:增值税减税、非税收入征管与企业投资

通过减税促进企业投资和提振宏观经济是近年来中国税收制度改革的重要目标,但减税政策的实际效果却存在争议。本文利用2009年增值税转型改革,研究了减税对地方政府税费收入和企业非税负担的影响,从税费替代的角度揭示非税负担变动如何影响企业固定资产投资。研究发现:(1)增值税转型在减税的同时提高了地方政府非税收入并加重了企业非税负担,地方财政收入受增值税转型冲击越大,企业非税负担上升越明显。(2)上述应主要体现在小型、微型和民营企业上,大中型、非民营企业的非税负担未发生明显变化。(3)非税负担上升会显著抑制小型、微型和民营企业的固定资产投资,促使小型微型和民营企业通过持有更多现金和减少流动性负债来应对税费负担不确定性。本文有助于理解减税政策对小型微型和民营企业非税负担的溢出效应及其影响,为通过减税降费促进投资和提振经济提供经验支撑。     

税收调控房地产的正当性及其必要限度——房产税改革试点的税法原则反思

法律是秩序与正义的综合体,房产税改革试点的合法性评价,既要关注相关制度的形式结构,即形式合法性问题,也要关注相关制度的正义价值,即实质正当性问题。就正当性而言,开征房产税是要逐渐地、持续地纠正住房市场化改革以来住房分配中效率与公平的失衡,体现分配正义;就形式结构而言,房产税改革必须遵循法治原则。而高房价盛行和收入差距扩大化背景下的沪渝两市房产税改革试点被赋予了过多的社会功能,有违税收法定原则;以户籍界分征收对象与减免标准有违税收公平原则;以房产交易价格为计税依据使税收适度原则难以落实。房产税改革应当回归税收法治轨道,以确保政府恪守其调控权运行的必要限度,保护纳税人权利,防止过高税收影响社会经济发展。     

文化产业投资正逢其时

文化产业是我国社会及经济发展的亮点和重要成分,是助推经济结构调整、加速经济发展模式转变的重要领域,发展前景灿烂。把握住时机的文化企业将快速成长并为其投资者提供丰厚回报。文化产业投资模式多样,VC、PE、并购等投资模式可以为处于初创期、成长期、成熟期的企业满足其不同的发展需求,另类投资作为资产配置的一种选择将逐步得到市场的认可,发展前景广阔。为了进一步促进文化产业的发展和文化投资的繁荣,国家应当鼓励文化行业向民间资本进一步开放;应重视投资交易风险控制、完善监管机制;进一步完善法律、税收等相关政策支持。     

欧盟碳税工具环境治理成效及其启示

欧盟碳税工具具有抑制碳排放的作用,但唯有丹麦效果最佳。煤燃料碳排放的削减是丹麦减排的关键。丹麦对煤燃料征收高税,对企业、居民实施差别税率,以及自愿协议税收返还政策的减排激励效应明显。我国开征碳税应准确把握时机,在税费改革的基础上建立环境税制度体系。要淡化碳税"双重红利"效应,立足节能减排调控功能;实施差别征税、善待民生、重在激励的碳税政策。