The Economics of Business Transaction Taxation

Abstract

The paper considers critical review of economic aspects of business transaction taxation. The aim of paper is to extract the determinants of the ability of government to tax business transactions. The subject of the paper contains the study of the aggregation (conjunction) of many business transactions because of complex taxation, even transactions differing in terms of their economic character. The details of the investigation of disaggregation (disjunction) of taxed transactions are provided, where attributes of involved agents are juxtaposed. The paper focuses on acceptable time caesura between actualization of business transactions and emerging of formal obligation to pay tax. The paper discusses the precedence of enacting tax statute (legalization of taxation), imposing an obligation to pay tax, and business incident.