This document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of direct and indirect taxation systems. Direct taxes are levied on individuals and organizations and include income tax, corporate tax, wealth tax, and inheritance tax. Indirect taxes are levied on goods and services and are paid by consumers through higher prices. Some advantages of direct taxes include controlling inflation, redistributing income, and enhancing citizen awareness of government spending. However, direct taxes can also discourage saving and investment and be difficult to administer. Indirect taxes allow even the poor to contribute but are considered regressive since the tax burden does not vary based on ability to pay.
This document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of direct and indirect taxation systems. Direct taxes are levied on individuals and organizations and include income tax, corporate tax, wealth tax, and inheritance tax. Indirect taxes are levied on goods and services and are paid by consumers through higher prices. Some advantages of direct taxes include controlling inflation, redistributing income, and enhancing citizen awareness of government spending. However, direct taxes can also discourage saving and investment and be difficult to administer. Indirect taxes allow even the poor to contribute but are considered regressive since the tax burden does not vary based on ability to pay.
This document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of direct and indirect taxation systems. Direct taxes are levied on individuals and organizations and include income tax, corporate tax, wealth tax, and inheritance tax. Indirect taxes are levied on goods and services and are paid by consumers through higher prices. Some advantages of direct taxes include controlling inflation, redistributing income, and enhancing citizen awareness of government spending. However, direct taxes can also discourage saving and investment and be difficult to administer. Indirect taxes allow even the poor to contribute but are considered regressive since the tax burden does not vary based on ability to pay.
of tax system 1 What is taxation system? A world taxation system is a proposed system for the collection of taxes by a central revenue service. Taxation is a tool commonly used by government as a means of redistributing income amongst its citizens. In some instances, taxation can have a positive effect on the redistribution of income, other times, it can do more harm than good. In its sense taxation system has two types narrated next.
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of tax system 2 Types of taxation: Direct tax: Indirect tax: Direct Taxes are An indirect tax is levied the taxes that are levied on goods or services, on the income of which increases the individuals or price of a good or organizations. They services. The tax include Income tax, is actually paid by the corporate tax, end consumer, by way wealth tax and of a higher retail price. inheritance tax. They include tax on cosmetics and other goods of daily use.
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of tax system 3 Direct taxation: Advantages Disadvantages
control inflation, Reduce purchasing
Through increasing of power, Taxation various taxation rate, especially when the tax taxation can be used as rate are high has the the means of controlling tendency of reducing the inflation especially the disposable income of an demand pull inflation. individual which Since raising of taxation rate of various commodity subsequently reduce the result into decrease in purchasing power. purchasing power of individual person hence being a solution to demand pull inflation. advantages and disadvantages of tax system 4 Cont .. Advantages Disadvantages
Discourage saving, Discourage investment,
Since taxation rate reduce Heavy tax rate on firm the disposable income of profit become disincentive an individual, this means for investor to invest on an individual saving particular sector instead ability will be reduced. investors will opt to invest Hence from, this money in other sector which their can not remain in just few tax rate is of reasonable hands and it remains value. revolving.
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of tax system 5 Cont .. Advantages: Disadvantages: Redistribution of The another income, Through disadvantages of a direct taxation system especially tax is that it is liable to be the progression tax evaded. By submitting system taxation can be a false returns, many means of ensuring fair people try to evade distribution of income income tax. Unless the between individuals by civic sense of the people imposing high tax rate for is well — developed and those who earn more and there is spread of less tax rate for individual education among them, who has lower income, the administration of this also can lead to direct taxes is very reduction of income gap difficult. between poor and rich people. advantages and disadvantages of tax system 6 Cont .. Advantages: Disadvantages:
When the people are fully People’s Indifference:
aware of the payment of When a man directly taxes, they are also bears the burden of a tax, conscious of the way the he tries to know how the government spends the government spends that money. They resent money. Those who are not unproductive or wasteful directly affected by the expenditure. As a result, burden of taxation remain the government becomes indifferent as to the way careful in its expenditure. the public expenditure is incurred.
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of tax system 7 Cont .. Advantages: Disadvantages:
Direct taxes constitute an Since not everybody has
important source of to pay direct taxes, it is government revenue. often responsible for Their collection charges creating social conflict are also low. Therefore, amongst societies. It also direct taxes are leads to crimes, social productive. injustice and a sense of inferiority among different groups of people.
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of tax system 8 Cont .. Advantages: Disadvantages: Paying the right amount Taxation can increase the of business taxes expenses that businesses face, which makes it more provides good credit difficult for them to achieve rating to financial profitability. Businesses pay institutions and agencies. numerous taxes, such as You can use your good payroll taxes on employee wages, property taxes, credit rating when business taxes and fees for getting a loan for permits and licenses. additional funds for the Business-related taxes leave expansion of your less money for expanding businesses through business or other investment and hiring. High purposes. business taxes may encourage outsourcing of operations abroad. advantages and disadvantages of tax system 9 Cont .. Advantages: Disadvantages:
Direct tax enhances the Direct tax gives mental
consciousness of the pinch to the taxpayers as citizens. Taxpayers feel they have to curtail their burden of tax and so they income to pay to the can insist the government government. to spend their contributions for the welfare of the community.
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of tax system 10 Cont .. Advantages: Disadvantages:
Taxation helps greatly in The main problem of
using taxation to the redistribution of redistribute income is income as it gives the the possibility government funds which of ridiculously high they can use to fund effective tax rates. public services. Though one might think that high effective tax rates would equate to more tax revenue, a high tax rate would give citizens a disincentive to work. advantages and disadvantages of tax system 11 Indirect taxes: Advantages Disadvantages The Poor Can Regressive: Indirect taxes are not equitable. Contribute: They are the For instance, salt tax in only means of reaching India fell more heavily on the poor. It is a sound the poor than on the rich, principle that every, as it had to be paid at the individual should pay same rate by all. Whether something, however little, a rich man buys a to the State. The poor are commodity or a poor always exempted from man, the price in the market is the same for all. paying direct taxes. They The tax is wrapped in the can be reached only price. Hence, rich and through indirect taxation. poor pay the same amount, which is obviously unfair. They are thus; regressive. advantages and disadvantages of tax system 12 Cont .. Advantages Disadvantages
They are convenient to Uncertain: Unless
both the tax-prayer and indirect taxes are imposed on necessaries, we cannot the State. I he tax-payers be sure of the revenue do not feel the burden yield. In the case of much partly because an goods, with an elastic indirect tax is paid in demand, the tax might not bring in much small amounts and partly revenue. The tax will raise because it is paid only the price and contract the when making purchases. demand. When the thing is not purchased, the question of the tax payment does not arise.
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of tax system 13 Cont .. Advantages: Disadvantages:
By imposing custom Through heavy custom
duties on imported duties thing needed for products the govt. is the production of goods in taking part in encouraging domestic industries will the domestic industries not be prepared with and its products. changing demand of customers.
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of tax system 14 Cont .. Advantages: Disadvantages:
Through higher anti Through anti dumping
dumping duty the duties, Goods produced central govt. discourages in plenty in our country the exporters to export can not be exported and the domestic goods in less hence these goods price. becomes unusable and provides no benefits to the traders.
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of tax system 15 Cont .. Advantages Disadvantages
Broad-based: Indirect Raising Prices Unduly:
taxes can be spread over They cause the price of an a wide range. So they are article to rise more than more beneficial and the tax. suitable. Easy Collection: The cost of collection is Collection takes place quite heavy. Every automatically when goods source o production has are bought and sold. A to be guarded. Large dealer collects the tax administrative staff is when he charges a price. required to administer He is an honorary tax such taxes. collector. advantages and disadvantages of tax system 16 Cont .. Advantages Disadvantages
They are very elastic in They discourage
yield, imposed on industries if raw materials necessaries of life which are taxed. This will raise have an inelastic demand. the cost of production and Indirect taxes on impair their competitive necessaries yield a large capacity. revenue, because people must buy these things.
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of tax system 17 Cont .. Advantages Disadvantages Discourage use of harmful No Civic products, As there are many Consciousness: These harmful products which are taxes do not develop civic produced in various country consciousness, because but the manufacture of such many times the tax-payer products may at the same does not even know that time being a good tax payer, he is paying tax. The tax The government may not decide to shutdown such is concealed in the price. companies instead the government will impose high tax upon such commodity to discourage users from consumption of such commodity, example cigarette and spirits. advantages and disadvantages of tax system 18