Taxes. Corruption and the shadow economy: How to reform the system?

Thematic scope

Taxes. Corruption and the shadow economy: How to reform the system?

• Pathological phenomena in the functioning of tax systems in the EU countries
• Losses resulting from VAT extortion in the EU. The scale of the phenomenon and its consequences for the public finance and the economy
• An abuse or “tax optimisation”? The limits of what is legal. The standard of a responsible taxpayer
• Tools intended to combat the shadow economy. How to combat pathologies without putting a spoke in the wheel of entrepreneurship?
• Should we tighten up the systems or repair them comprehensively? Requested changes in tax systems
• The degree of unification of national tax systems in the aspect of preventing pathologies
• The role of the fiscal apparatus, common regulations and co-operation between the institutions of administration of the Member States