Maja Putica
The objective of the current paper is to study the influence of the selected business and institutional determinants on the annual effective tax rates in banks in Serbia. Panel data regression models are applied on 113 observations, covering the period from 2017 to 2021, where the accounting and current effective tax rates are used as a measure of the actual tax burden. The results show that the effective tax rate in banks in Serbia is significantly below the statutory level. Furthermore, for each data set, the coefficients of changes in the effective tax rate are calculated, and the most adequate model is selected using the Hausman and Breusch-Pagan tests. In the first model, the biggest change in the effective tax rates is caused by change in leverage, merger and acquisition processes and the bank size. The presence of loan loss provisions in the model completely highlights the impact of profitability and leverage. Finally, in the last model, banks with a profit before tax can manage effective tax rates and tax burdens by regulating capitalization levels. The results of this study are of interest for economy creators and for business managers in banks, helping them in effective tax planning and managing the results.
Jadranka Đurović Todorović1, Marina Đorđević1 and Milica Ristić Cakić2
Although a complex taxation system can affect a company’s operations, its negative effects can be significantly greater at the macroeconomic level. Given the fact that it can make it more difficult to attract investments and collect revenue, the corporate income tax system has been the subject matter of numerous research studies for many years now. Modern business conditions initiated their frequent reforms, as well as the numerous dilemmas related to them. The paper deals with the taxpayer as an element of corporate income tax. Although numerous papers investigate the (dis)unity of tax systems in defining corporate income taxpayers, few authors examine the economic effects of these discrepancies. Also, most research studies are focused on examining the other elements of this tax form, such as the tax rate or tax incentives. In this paper, an effort is made to find a connection between the form of the organization of a business entity and the tax burden in the domain of corporate income tax. The research study aims to indicate the importance of the economic effects of this tax element and to propose its reform. The research has confirmed the initial assumption, respectively; it has shown that different forms of the organization of business entities bear different burdens of paying corporate income tax, which affects the amount of the tax revenue that could be collected. The results have shown that the sampled companies paid less tax due to corrections and adjustments in tax balances and tax returns.