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Do commercial accounts and the tax base have to be aligned?

dc.contributor.authorAguiar, Nina
dc.date.accessioned2011-11-25T10:31:18Z
dc.date.available2011-11-25T10:31:18Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractA “formal linkage” between taxable income and commercial annual accounts forms a pillar of corporate tax. Its rationales are practicability; the annual accounts as a meaning of proof as to discretionary accounting judgments; and the notion that commercial income as a basis for taxation matches the ability to pay principle. These rationales assume that commercial income features suit the ability to pay requirements, an idea that has been contested recently on the basis that the IAS/IFRS normative system is conceived for purposes very different from those of taxation and therefore the “formal linkage” rule should be abandoned. In this paper the author sustains that the measurement of income under IAS/IFRS has all the necessary features to match ability to pay, including prudence. But even when the tax legislator considers that taxable profit must deviate widely from commercial profit, such deviation is technically compatible with a “formal linkage” between taxable income and commercial annual accounts, and such a “formal linkage” is totally justified by proof requirements concerning discretionary accounting judgements. This paper attempts to demonstrate this last point through the examples of Italy, Spain and Portugal current legislations.por
dc.identifier.citationAguiar, Nina (2011). Do commercial accounts and the tax base have to be aligned?. In Max Planck European Postdoctoral Conference on Tax Law. Munichpor
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/6348
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.peerreviewedyespor
dc.subjectTaxable profitpor
dc.subjectAnnual accountspor
dc.subjectIFRSpor
dc.subjectPrudencepor
dc.subjectAbility to paypor
dc.subjectDiscretionary judgementspor
dc.subjectProofpor
dc.titleDo commercial accounts and the tax base have to be aligned?por
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oaire.citation.titleMax Planck European Postdoctoral Conference on Tax Lawpor
person.familyNameAguiar
person.givenNameNina
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