Course detail
Corporate taxation
FP-UzpoPAcad. year: 2017/2018
The course is focused mainly on domestic tax, and the company income taxation system. The purpose of this course is to teach the basic terminology and methods used to set the tax base rates and the tax liability of corporations. The course is also focused on common provisions within the laws on Corporate Income Tax and Natural Person Income Tax together with other legal regulations and rules associated with these laws, which are necessary for setting the tax base rates for corporations.
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Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
1. Active attendance at seminars where student will practise various different practical methods of calculating Tax.
2. Successful completion of a credit test – and a minimum 50 % completion of given coursework.
Conditions for passing an exam: Student has to demonstrate his/her knowledge acquired in the course and apply it in practice (in particular the determination of depreciation for different types of tangible and intangible assets, technical improvements and even on leased assets, calculation of operational and financial leaing, the determination of the tax liability for different legal entities, knowledge enhancing items and reduce profit, deductions, up to date, taxable income, non-taxable and exempt, etc.).
Form of examination: Combined – written exam followed by an oral examination if necessary.
Course curriculum
- Introduction to Corporate taxation (defining the basic terminology and individual types of corporations and also income tax assessment in companies).
- Tax exemption and tax base (terminology, tax-deductible items, tax allowance, tax base, tax credit)
- Expenditures on achievement, on reassurance and on maintaining income; non-deductible expenses.
- Long-term tangible and intangible assets (basic terminology; depreciation; joint ownership; non-depreciable assets; assets appreciation).
- Depreciation of fixed assets (depreciation categories, classification of assets, methods of depreciation, amortization when technical improvements)
- Leasing (operative and financial leasing, basic terminology, advantages and disadvantages of leasing, conditions of leasing, requirements for contracts, termination of a contract before the maturity date).
- Special tax rate and temporary and concluding provisions (classification according income type, tax collection).
- Non-profit organizations (their specific position in terms of the income tax law, method of determining taxable income, the method of cost to determine the tax base).
- Public companies and special partnerships (comparison of companies' shares and their taxation, determination of the tax base, the application of deduction).
- Syndicates (status of participants in the association, the determination of the tax base, cutting expenditure and revenue and the evidence).
- The income tax return (brief description, way of filling according to its classification).
- The income tax return (defining the content of each tax return, practical completion).
The seminars will be focused on practising the lectured topics and elaboration of case studies (both individually and in teams).
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Obchodní zákoník v platném znění (CS)
Pokyna řady D - Finanční zpravodaj (CS)
Zákon č. 586/1992 Sb. ve znění p.p. o dani z příjmů fyzických a právnických osob (CS)
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Syllabus
- Introduction to Corporate Income Tax (defining the basic terminology and individual types of corporations and also income tax assessment).
- Tax exemption and tax base (terminology, tax-deductible items, tax allowance)
- Expenditures on achievement, on reassurance and on maintaining income; non-deductible expenses.
- Long-term tangible and intangible assets (basic terminology; depreciation; joint ownership; non-depreciable assets; assets appreciation).
- Leasing (operative and financial leasing, basic terminology, advantages and disadvantages of leasing, conditions of leasing, requirements for contracts, termination of a contract before the maturity date).
- Special tax rate and temporary and concluding provisions.
- Non-profit organizations.
- Public companies and special partnerships.
- Syndicates.
- The income tax return.
The seminars will be focused on practising the lectured topics and elaboration of case studies (both individually and in teams).
Exercise
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