Fiscal Burden of Self-Employed Persons in the Context of Tax Reforms and other Legislative Changes in the Czech Republic

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989100:27510/25:10258031

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/jtr.2025.11.2.207" target="_blank" >10.15826/jtr.2025.11.2.207</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Fiscal Burden of Self-Employed Persons in the Context of Tax Reforms and other Legislative Changes in the Czech Republic

Original language description

The article deals with the development of the tax and levy burden of self-employed persons in the Czech Republic from 1993 to the present. Payments for income tax and social security contributions are significant costs for entrepreneurs and have an impact on the business environment. The aim of this article is to evaluate the development of the tax and levy burden of self-employed persons in the Czech Republic using regression and correlation analysis methods. While tax reforms are relatively frequent in the area of personal income tax, and it can be concluded that the tax burden is not constant, changes in the legislative regulation of social security contribution are only minimal. However, as the results of the analysis show, social security contributions have increased significantly. The reason for this is the existence of minimum assessment bases. These minimum assessment bases are based on the average wage, and social security contributions also increase as the average wage increases. If the taxpayer’s tax base is less than or equal to the minimum assessment base, there is almost a minimal dependence between income tax and levy payments. The reason for this is that the tax burden is often zero due to the low tax base and a non-taxable minimum. If the tax base is higher, both the tax and levy burden increased but the levy burden increased significantly. However, a decrease in these payments cannot be expected due to the growing pressure on the balance of public finances. Future reforms will probably lead to an increase in both the tax and levy burden of self-employed persons.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50206 - Finance

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Tax Reform

ISSN

2412-8872

e-ISSN

2414-9497

Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

RU - RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

381-396

UT code for WoS article

001530448800007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105008946333