...STRUCTURE, ADMINISTRATION OF VAT IN BANGLADESH WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO EVASION CONTROL AND MEASUREMENT OF VAT POTENTIAL DR. RAFIQUL ISLAM First Secretary VAT : Policy National Board of Revenue Government of Bangladesh. (The author acknowledges special thanks to Mr. Saiful Islam Khan, Member (VAT), NBR for his constant guidance in preparing this article. Dr. Mahesh C. Purohit, Professor of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, India was kind enough to comment on the initial draft which helped to improve it. However, the views expressed in the article are of the author and do not necessarily reflect any opinion of the organisation he serves) Page # 2 Taxing Our Patience Communication is all about people being able to understand each other. Except when it comes to Government forms and directives. That's when middle brained civil servants are in a class of their own. The following is in latest example which arrived in employer's offices courtesy the Inland Revenue : "Errors on form P38A (1992). Form P38A (1992) was enclosed with the form P35 (Employer's annual return) sent to you in late January / early February. We apologise for the fact that Form P38A contained the following two errors. 1. Question No. 1 of the check list on Form P35 says you should complete form P38A if you answer 'No' to this question. However, Form P38A itself asks you to complete it if you answered 'Yes' to Question 1 on the form P35. 2. On form P38A Question 3...
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...STRUCTURE, ADMINISTRATION OF VAT IN BANGLADESH WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO EVASION CONTROL AND MEASUREMENT OF VAT POTENTIAL DR. RAFIQUL ISLAM First Secretary VAT : Policy National Board of Revenue Government of Bangladesh. (The author acknowledges special thanks to Mr. Saiful Islam Khan, Member (VAT), NBR for his constant guidance in preparing this article. Dr. Mahesh C. Purohit, Professor of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, India was kind enough to comment on the initial draft which helped to improve it. However, the views expressed in the article are of the author and do not necessarily reflect any opinion of the organisation he serves) Taxing Our Patience Communication is all about people being able to understand each other. Except when it comes to Government forms and directives. That's when middle brained civil servants are in a class of their own. The following is in latest example which arrived in employer's offices courtesy the Inland Revenue : "Errors on form P38A (1992). Form P38A (1992) was enclosed with the form P35 (Employer's annual return) sent to you in late January / early February. We apologise for the fact that Form P38A contained the following two errors. 1. Question No. 1 of the check list on Form P35 says you should complete form P38A if you answer 'No' to this question. However, Form P38A itself asks you to complete it if you answered 'Yes' to Question 1 on the form P35. 2. On form P38A Question 3 asks 'Was the worker paid less...
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...Williamson said the Washington Consensus was originally formulated not as a policy prescription for development, but was a lists of policies that were widely held in Washington in 1989 that were desirable for implementation in Latin America. He noted there were other development policies that he thought were useful, but were not included in the Washington Consensus since they did not enjoy widespread support. He suggested the Washington Consensus had three different meanings. First, was his original list of ten specific policy reforms. The second understanding was that the Consensus was a set of economic policies advocated for developing countries in general by official Washington, such as the IMF, Bank and US Treasury Department. These policies augmented the original policies advocated by Williamson, and emphasized institutional reforms. The third meaning was espoused by critics of the IMF and Bank who suggested these were policies imposed on client countries, and were an attempt to minimize the role of the state. Williamson criticized the third view as one not grounded in fact. In retrospect, he added that he was wishful in his thinking about a consensus on the issue exchange rate policies. He was also strongly critical of the IMF’s move to rapidly dismember capital controls in Asia during the financial crisis of the late 1990’s. Williamson then discussed the ten policy reforms of the Consensus. First, was that budget deficits should be small enough be financed without recourse...
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...uk/taxsystem/taxsurvey2000.pdf A Survey of the UK Tax System* by S. Adam and C. Frayne Updated November 2001 1. Introduction This document provides an overview of the UK tax system, describing how each of the main taxes works and setting their current state into the context of the past 22 years. We begin, in Section 2, with a brief assessment of the total amount of tax raised in the UK and the individual contribution made by each tax. In Section 3, we describe the structure of each of the main taxes: income tax; National Insurance contributions; value added tax and other indirect taxes; capital taxes such as capital gains tax and inheritance tax; corporation tax; taxes on North Sea oil production; local (council) tax; and the non-domestic property tax. The information given in these sections relates, where possible, to the tax system for the fiscal year 2001-2. In Section 4, we set the current system in the context of reforms that have taken place over the last 22 years. This section attempts to draw together elements such as the changing structure of income tax and National Insurance contributions, the taxation of different forms of saving and developments in indirect taxation, corporation tax and local taxes. 2. Revenue raised by UK taxes Total government receipts are forecast to be £398.4 billion in 2001–02, or 40.2% of UK GDP. This is equivalent to roughly £8,500...
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...Part A “Ireland’s banking crisis bears the clear imprint of global influences, yet it was in crucial ways home-made.” (Regling and Watson 2010) The economic conditions in Ireland which preceded the bank guarantee were created by a mix of both internal and external macro factors and domestic policy decisions. We will examine these factors in detail and see how government policy, reckless lending policies by the banks and a lack of any real regulatory oversight of the banking sector culminated so dramatically in that faithful decision on 30th September 2008. From the late eighties onwards, Ireland experienced a period of unprecedented economic expansion. This expansion can be divided into two distinct phases, the export driven growth of the early to late 1990’s - ‘the true ‘Celtic Tiger’ period” (Honahan. P, 2010) - and the major asset bubble in commercial and residential property from 2000 to 2007. The 1990’s saw a dramatic expansion in Ireland’s economy. A large increase in workforce participation due to demographic changes, increased productivity and a huge influx of foreign direct investment combined with other factors resulted in GNI per-capita doubling in less than a decade from 1990 (World Bank, Databank) . These factors formed the basis for the ensuing housing boom. As employment increased, so did incomes and immigration which created increased demand for housing stock. The steady expansion in employment, standards of living and incomes (due largely to social partnership...
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...advantages and disadvantages of some measures to control it. Tax avoidance: remedies and collateral damage Richard Baron, former Head of Taxation at the IoD, and Stephen Herring, his successor, consider the proper use of the term ‘tax avoidance’, where avoidance becomes abuse, and the pros and cons of some measures to control it. • The basics of UK tax law are simple, but difficulties arise from complex transactions that require specific rules – which in turn create opportunities for aggressive tax avoidance and abuse. ax avoidance has rarely been out of the news over the past two years, although the term has also rarely been properly defined and has often been muddled both with tax abuse and, even more incorrectly, tax evasion. Commentary has focused on two separate assertions that tax avoidance is taking place. Firstly, claims that some multinational groups of companies, generally US-owned, have undertaken planning which might involve recognising profits in one country rather than another that has higher corporation tax rates. Secondly, introducing planning arrangements to secure better treatments of financing costs, intellectual property rights and undistributed profits by locating business activities in favourable jurisdictions. More understandably, the term ‘tax avoidance’ is also used to describe situations which occur where elaborate sequences of – typically purely financial – transactions are undertaken to exploit perceived technical loopholes in the law. These may...
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...Subject code: BBEK1103 Subject: Principles of Microeconomics Contents Preface .......................................................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 3 Effects of Tax systemt .................................................................................................................................. 4 Evaluation of Tax Reforms……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..10 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………....11 References…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….14 Easa Faheem S11422649 Bachelors Degree in Human Resource Management 1 Subject code: BBEK1103 Subject: Principles of Microeconomics Preface This is a work done as part of the module „Principles of Microeconomics‟, which is part of the course Bachelor of Human Resource Management. Consisting of an analysis of a Tax reforms for Maldives, this assignment evaluates the purpose of the tax system, types of tax systems, effects of the tax reform systems to the economy and other factors which affect it. The objective of this work is to develop students‟ ability to analyse the critically tax reform systems of certain country, as well as the various external factors that have an impact on the economy...
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...IIE Module Guide ACCO230 ACCOUNTING 2A (DIPLOMA) MODULE GUIDE 2013 First edition: (2013) This manual enjoys copyright under the Berne Convention. In terms of the Copyright Act, no 98 of 1978, no part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any other information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the proprietor. The Independent Institute of Education (Pty) Ltd is registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training as a private further and higher education and training institution under the Further Education and Training Colleges Act, 2006 (reg. no. 2009/FE07/003, prov. to 31/12/2014) and the Higher Education Act, 1997 (reg. no. 2007/HE07/002). © The Independent Institute of Education (Pty) Ltd 2013 - Page 1 of 82 IIE Module Guide ACCO230 DID YOU KNOW? Student Portal The full-service student portal provides you with access to your academic administrative information, including: an online calendar, timetable, academic results, module content, document reviews, financial account, and so much more. Module Guides or Manuals When you log into the Student Portal, the Module Information page displays “Module Purpose” and “Textbook Information” including online “Module Guides or Manuals” for each module for which you are registered. Supplementary Materials For certain modules, electronic supplementary material...
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...GUJARAT UNIVERSITY SYLLABI OF THREE YEARS LL.B. PROGRAMME WITH CREDIT BASED SYSTEM (As prescribed b y the BAR CO UNCIL OF INDI A and as per the Rules of Legal Education, 2008) Effective from the academic year 2011-12 THREE YEARS’ LL.B. POGRAMME First LL. B. Semester – I FIRST LL.B. - S EMES TER 1 (MONSOON ) PE R WE EK S UBJEC TS LEC TURE S OT HER S T OT AL C RED IT S (SE M)29 CORE COURSE 101 L aw of T ort i ncludi ng MV A cci dent And C on sum er Pr ot ecti on Law s 4 1 5 5 CORE COURSE 102 Crim in al Law P aper – I (General P rinci pl es of P en al Law ) 4 1 5 5 4 1 5 5 4 1 5 5 4 1 5 5 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 CORE COURSE 103 CORE COURSE 104 CORE COURSE 105 FOUNDATIO N 106 F SOFT S KILL 107 K Crim in al Law P aper – II (S pec ific Off enc es) L aw of C ont ract S peci al C ontr act C on sti tuti on al Hist ory of I ndi a Use of Law J ournal s and L egal S oftw ar e 1 Semester – I Monsoon Semester CORE CO URSE 101 : LAW OF TO RT I NCLUDI NG M V ACCI DENT AND CO NS UM ER P ROTECTION LAWS Objectives of the Course : Wit h rap id industrializat ion, to rt actio n came to u sed again st manu factu rers and industrial un it fo r p roducts injurious to human beings. Present ly the emphas is is o n extend ing th e principles no t only to acts, which are h armfu l, bu t also to failu re to co mply with stand ards that are continuously...
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...INTERNSHIP REPORT ON ACCOUNTING INFORMATIONSYSTEM OF REAL ESTATE BUSINESS IN BANGLADESH”-AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF [pic] PREPARED FOR Farzana Afrin Internship Supervisor & Lecturer Dept. of Business Studies Stamford University Bangladesh. PREPARED BY Mahmood Hossain Id: 02707400 Section: 27(Q) Date: LATTER OF TRANSMITTAL April Ms Farzana Afrin Lecturer Stamford University Dhanmondi, Dhaka Dear Madam, I feel myself fortunate enough for having the scope to conclude the study on “The Accounting information System of Real Estate Business in Bangladesh”-An Empirical study of Building For Future Ltd, Which you assigned me to do as a part of the study. Obviously, this type of practical work made me acquainted with “Real Estate Finance” in real life situation. Here, I can’t deny the help that I got from the staff of Building For Future Ltd. who ensured me a full congenial atmosphere to access over a plenty of information with relevant papers and a practical survey. I am thankful to them for showing their highest degree of tolerance in answering my inexorable questions, sometimes repeated. I would enthusiastically provide you related information depending on your queries. The report was prepared under your able leadership and I do respectfully appreciate guidance to me to learn about...
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...M U M B AI SILICON VALLEY BANGA LORE SINGA P ORE MUMBA I BK C NE W DE L HI MUNICH The Indian Medical Device Industry Regulatory, Legal and Tax Overview March 2015 © Copyright 2015 Nishith Desai Associates www.nishithdesai.com The Indian Medical Device Industry Regulatory, Legal and Tax Overview About NDA Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) is a research based international law firm with offices in Mumbai, Bangalore, Silicon Valley, Singapore, New Delhi, Munich. We specialize in strategic legal, regulatory and tax advice coupled with industry expertise in an integrated manner. We focus on niche areas in which we provide significant value and are invariably involved in select highly complex, innovative transactions. Our key clients include marquee repeat Fortune 500 clientele. Core practice areas include International Tax, International Tax Litigation, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Fund Formation, Fund Investments, Capital Markets, Employment and HR, Intellectual Property, Corporate & Securities Law, Competition Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, JVs & Restructuring, General Commercial Law and Succession and Estate Planning. Our specialized industry niches include financial services, IT and telecom, education, pharma and life sciences, media and entertainment, real estate and infrastructure. Nishith Desai Associates has been ranked as the Most Innovative Indian Law Firm (2014) and the Second Most Innovative Asia - Pacific Law Firm (2014)...
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...Local Economy http://lec.sagepub.com/ The euro crisis Andrew Jones Local Economy 2011 26: 594 DOI: 10.1177/0269094211421748 The online version of this article can be found at: http://lec.sagepub.com/content/26/6-7/594 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: London South Bank University Local Economy Policy Unit Partner Organisation: Centre for Local Economic Strategies Additional services and information for Local Economy can be found at: Email Alerts: http://lec.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://lec.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://lec.sagepub.com/content/26/6-7/594.refs.html >> Version of Record - Nov 17, 2011 What is This? Downloaded from lec.sagepub.com at UNIV OF GUELPH on November 17, 2013 Review article The euro crisis Andrew Jones Local Economy Policy Unit, London South Bank University, UK Local Economy 26(6–7) 594–618 ! The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0269094211421748 lec.sagepub.com ´ ˜ Marco Buti, Servaas Deroose, Vıtor Gaspar and Joao Nogueira Martins (eds), The Euro: The First Decade, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2010; 1048pp: ISBN 978-9279098420, £95 (hbk); Roy H. Ginsberg, Demystifying The European Union: The Enduring Logic of Regional Integration (2nd edn), Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD, 2010;...
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...Business briefing series 20 issues for businesses expanding internationally At Ernst & Young, we understand the challenges and we know what it takes to drive sustainable growth because we’ve helped many of the world’s most dynamic and ambitious companies develop into market leaders. Our global network of Strategic Growth Markets professionals are dedicated to serving the changing needs of fast-growth companies. Whether working with dynamic mid-cap companies or early stage venture-backed businesses, our professionals around the world draw upon their extensive experience, insight and global resources to help growing businesses reach their full potential. As well as providing traditional assurance, advisory, tax and transaction advisory services, our professionals work with you to reduce the complexity of legislation, help align your tax strategy with your business goals, expand into new markets and pursue mergers, acquisitions or other strategy transactions to take your business to the next level. We can provide guidance around how to manage and control your risks, so that you can approach the future with confidence. So whether your business thrives on entrepreneurial spirit, innovation or superior customer service – and regardless of your stage of growth – our Strategic Growth Markets team can help you take the next step. It’s not luck that makes leaders. Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 144,000 people are...
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...Business briefing series 20 issues for businesses expanding internationally At Ernst & Young, we understand the challenges and we know what it takes to drive sustainable growth because we’ve helped many of the world’s most dynamic and ambitious companies develop into market leaders. Our global network of Strategic Growth Markets professionals are dedicated to serving the changing needs of fast-growth companies. Whether working with dynamic mid-cap companies or early stage venture-backed businesses, our professionals around the world draw upon their extensive experience, insight and global resources to help growing businesses reach their full potential. As well as providing traditional assurance, advisory, tax and transaction advisory services, our professionals work with you to reduce the complexity of legislation, help align your tax strategy with your business goals, expand into new markets and pursue mergers, acquisitions or other strategy transactions to take your business to the next level. We can provide guidance around how to manage and control your risks, so that you can approach the future with confidence. So whether your business thrives on entrepreneurial spirit, innovation or superior customer service – and regardless of your stage of growth – our Strategic Growth Markets team can help you take the next step. It’s not luck that makes leaders. Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 144,000 people are...
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...crossborder health risks to natural-resource scarcities. Many of these so-called global commons problems carry grave risks to economic growth in the developing world and to the livelihoods and welfare of their people. Climate change is the classic example. Despite the risks involved, donor governments have funded programs addressing global challenges such as climate change at far lower levels than traditional programs of country-based development assistance. The prospects for dealing with such global challenges will depend at least in part on new collective financing mechanisms. In this paper, we examine four categories of existing resource-mobilization options, including (1) transportation levies; (2) currency and financial transaction taxes; (3) capitalization of IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs); and (4) the sale, mobilization, or capitalization of IMF gold. In the end, we recommend that willing governments utilize a modest portion of their existing SDR allocations to capitalize a third-party financing entity. This entity would offer bonds on international capital markets backed by its SDR reserves. The proceeds would back private investment in climate-mitigation projects in developing countries that might otherwise lack adequate financing. This approach could mobilize up to $75 billion at little or no budgetary cost for contributing governments. Any limited budgetary costs could be offset by using excess proceeds from recent IMF gold sales. In our view, capitalizing a small...
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