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VAT in the EU Countries
FP-FdphPAAcad. year: 2020/2021
Principles and rules of the correct assessment of value added tax for transactions of Czech business entities within the EU community. Tax optimisation. Correct assessment of the taxable person, taxable transaction, place of transaction, chargeable event and chargeability of VAT, tax base, exemptions and deductions. The role of ECJ in the application of Czech legal provisions or the provisions of the Directive.
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Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
1. Successful completion of the written credit test at the end of the semester with a minimum score of 60% of the total number of points and at the same time with a minimum of 50% of the number of points awarded for each individual task.
2. Submission of a term project – analysis of a European Court of Justice decision in the area of VAT and its effects on Czech VAT legislation.
The final exam is written and it focuses on practical cases of VAT application, particularly on transactions within the EU community. To pass the test it is necessary to gain at least 50% of the total amount of points.
Course curriculum
2. The Act on Value Added Tax – chargeable event and chargeability of tax, tax documents, tax base and the assessment of tax, correction of the tax base and correction of the tax payable, credit/debit note
3. The Act on Value Added Tax – tax rates, exemptions without a right to deduct, exemptions with a right to deduct, tax deductions
4. The Act on Value Added Tax – reverse charge, Czech tax administration
5. The Council Directive – the principles of interpretation of the VAT Directive, general principles of law and the principles specific for the law of the EU community, ECJ procedure, new codification of VAT law.
6. The Council Directive – aim, scope, territorial scope, taxable persons
7. The Council Directive – taxable transactions – the supply of goods, the acquisition of goods within the EU community, provision of services, importation of goods, place of transaction
8. The Council Directive – chargeable event and chargeability of tax, tax base, tax rates
9. The Council Directive – tax exemptions
10. The Council Directive – tax deductions
11. The Council Directive – obligations of taxable persons and certain non-taxable persons
12. The Act on Value Added Tax, The Council Directive - special schemes for transactions within the EU community
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/j_6/
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html?locale=cs
Nařízení Rady č. 282/2011 ze dne 15. března 2011, kterým se stanoví prováděcí opatření ke směrnici 2006/112/ES o společném systému daně z přidané hodnoty
Směrnice Rady 2006/112/ES ze dne 28. listopadu 2006 o společném systému daně z přidané hodnoty
Zákon č. 235/2004 Sb., o dani z přidané hodnoty
Recommended reading
SCHELLEKENS, M. European Tax Handbook 2015. Amsterodam. IBFD. June 2015. 1044 s. ISBN 978-90-8722-313-7 (EN)
ŠIROKÝ, Jan. Daně v Evropské unii: daňové systémy všech 28 členských států EU, legislativní základy daňové harmonizace včetně judikátů SD, odraz ekonomické krize v daňové politice EU, zdanění finančního sektoru. 6., aktualiz. a přeprac. vyd. včetně CD. Praha: Linde Praha, 2013, 386 s. ISBN 978-80-7201-925-0. (CS)
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