Review of the Czech Social Security Contributions

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Review of the Czech Social Security Contributions
Original language description
The Czech Republic has not succeeded in its transformation to one of the welfare regimes within the public pension and healthcare schemes; improvisation is still dominant within these sectors. These public expenditure programs mostly comprise something else than their designation would suggest (?insurance?). All this results in excessive and unreasonably complicated social security contributions, thereby significantly impairing effectiveness of the entire public revenue system and unnecessarily increasing the costs associated with the taxation of businesses. We review the Czech pension and healthcare schemes to find the optimum type and extent of insurance premiums, corresponding to the given types of these schemes. Even if no paradigmatic reforms takeplace, it is possible to fundamentally rationalize the public revenues: particularly by simply increasing the personal income tax rate. A comprehensive social policy system also requires introduction of taxation of public pensions, both
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Economic Policy in the European Union Member Countries
ISBN
978-80-248-3796-3
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Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
729-740
Publisher name
VŠB-TU Ostrava
Place of publication
Ostrava
Event location
Karolinka
Event date
Jan 1, 2015
Type of event by nationality
EUR - Evropská akce
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