我国现行税制对产业链延伸的影响及对策

产业链延伸能够优化我国的产品结构和经济结构,带动区域经济乃至全国经济的一体化发展,但我国现行税制存在的税权过度集中、地方税规模过小、内外资企业税制不统一及税收征管制度中存在的地方保护主义等因素不利于产业链的延伸。因此,基于延伸我国产业链的客观要求,应通过制度的设计和创新来进一步完善我国的税收制度。     

我国上市公司主动设立独立董事的动机分析

在我国独立董事制度的强制性制度变迁过程中,部分上市公司出现了主动设立独立董事的"自愿行为"。针对引发自愿行为的动机进行理论分析,并以沪深两市主动设立与非主动设立各50家上市公司为样本进行实证检验,结果表明我国上市公司中存在主动设立独立董事的"监督的动机"和"顾问的动机"。该研究为我国上市公司从强制合规到步入主动守规的自主治理阶段以及如何改革独立董事制度等方面提供了经验支持。     

论偷税故意

在税收执法实践中,认定偷税是否应考虑行为人的主观故意性一直是争议最为激烈,且至今没有解决的问题之一。这一问题得不到解决,不但会对纳税人造成不公平,同时也会极大地损害税务机关自身的形象,侵蚀纳税人对税法的遵从度和对税务机关的信赖度。如果从习惯法来理解偷税的故意性,从偷税与偷税罪的关系以及近期国家税务总局一些相关的规范性文件来进行分析,可以拓宽解决这一问题的思路。     

The Adjustment Property

An input–output (IO) system which is capable of producing any semi-positive net product by an adequate choice of the activity levels of its processes satisfies the ‘adjustment’ property. We analyze under which conditions the adjustment property holds for IO systems in which some produced goods have a purely intermediate character. The peculiarity of these pure capital goods is that final demand for them is identically zero. One of the ways to deal with this type of system is to eliminate the pure capital goods, by means of vertical integration.     

Global Trends and Issues in Value Added Taxation

Since the late 1960s, the VAT has become one of the mainstays of the tax systems in over one hundred countries. Apparently, its revenue raising and neutrality properties make it an attractive tax in a rapidly integrating, high-tax world. Following an overview of VATs throughout the world, this article examines various VAT structure and policy issues under the following headings: tax coverage features, tax base aspects, hard-to-tax sectors, rate structure issues, and interjurisdictional coordination problems. It is shown that the normative requirements of a good VAT are often met only in the breach.     

Environmental Taxes, International Capital Mobility and Inefficient Tax Systems: Tax Burden vs. Tax Shifting

This paper deals with the so-called double dividend of an environmental tax reform. In a model with only labor and a polluting input as factors of production, we find that society faces a trade-off between internalizing environmental externalities and raising revenues in the least distortionary way. However, if capital enters the production structure, an ecological tax reform may render the tax structure more efficient from a non-environmental point of view, thereby raising not only environmental quality but also private incomes.     

Dual VATs and Cross-Border Trade: Two Problems, One Solution?

In recent years, two distinct but related questions have been raised with respect to value-added taxes (VATs). Concern has been expressed over whether it is desirable or even possible for both national and subnational governments in federal countries such as India, Argentina, and Russia to impose VATs. One reason for thinking that such subnational VATs are unlikely to be workable on a destination basis is the problem of cross-border trade. Of course, this same problem also arises within the European Union, where there is no EU VAT. Drawing upon Canadian experience, we argue that not only is it possible to have two-tier or dual VATs on a destination basis in a single country but that the existence of dual VATs may help deal with some of the problems of cross-border trade.     

我国金融业“营改增”的现实考量和路径选择

我国金融业税负偏高、重复课税比较严重，不利于金融企业专业化分工协助和国际竞争力提高，也影响了增值税抵扣环节的完整性。金融业“营改增”是规范金融业流转税制的必然选择，可以避免货物和其他劳务重复课税，是解决税负不公、促进金融业发展的内在要求。金融业“营改增”应该合理确定应税项目和税基，合理确定税率和课税时点，合理确定税收收入的划分和归属。     

Agency costs of vertical integration—the case of family firms,investor‐owned firms and cooperatives in the French wine industry

Vertical integration theory has long suggested internal costs related to changes in incentives due to vertical integration, which means that vertical integration may lead to agency costs. In this work, we specify the notion of agency costs of vertical integration and extend Ang et al. (2000)'s measurement of agency costs to provide an empirical assessment of these costs in the French wine industry. Our econometric analysis finds that the agency costs of vertical integration may reach 2–3% of sales. It also showed that operating expenses of vertical integration are lower for cooperatives than for other firms, while vertical integration is less rewarding for them. This raises questions on the relation between agency costs in cooperatives and their performance.     

Excise taxes,over-shifting,cross-elasticity,and tax revenue

This article examines cross-elasticity effects in excise taxation for markets characterized by monopolistic competition and over-shifting. Extending the constant elasticity demand model to consider cross-elasticity leads to notably different results regarding tax revenue maximization. With nonzero but weak cross-elasticity effects relative to the price elasticity, we derive a higher optimal tax-price ratio compared to prior research. With strong cross-elasticity, revenue can continually be increased by raising the excise tax. Overall, the study offers government greater incentive to use excise taxes to obtain revenue.