K10 - Basic Areas of Law: General (Constitutional Law)Návrat zpět

The aim of the paper is a verification of particular channels that taxation can influence economic growth by. It concerns an influence by capital accumulation and investments, technological development and human capital accumulation. The effects of total tax burden as well as of particular taxes are analyzed. Tax burden is approximated by tax quota and, in certain cases, by implicit tax rate. There is a method of Panel Data Estimation used, especially in the case of OECD countries sample, and all the common econometric tests are performed. The recommendations for economic policy makers are formulated on the basis of the analysis. Above all, they include the suggestion of overall tax quota reduction, especially the reduction of excise taxes and social security contributions. Concerning new member countries of European Union, there is a recommendation of further elimination of tax burden of corporations.

The command economy that the Czech Republic inherited from the communist system was considered unreformable. It seems as if the social and economic transition of ex-communist countries is necessary for their full inclusion among democratic countries with highly developed market economic systems. No new central European tiger has emerged since Erhard"s reform in the post-war West Germany, since welfare-statism also destroyed a genuine economic transition in the Czech Republic. Influential interest groups were able to interrupt the transition process and to stop it halfway in many areas. Political pressures to bring the Czech Republic closer to European Union's standards led to the passing of laws and government measures that were incompatible with the highly-regarded transition strategy. The development of public law at the expense of private law enforcement (in accordance with EU policy) led to the further expansion of bazaar capitalism in the Czech Republic.

Since the start of economic transformation, the Czech Republic has been viewed as the country enjoying the best starting position and the best results as regards its economic level and its macroeconomic stabilization, but also as a country where the institutional framework is less adapted to supplying the needs of a market economy than Hungarian or Polish institutional framework. The fact that prior to accession the Czech Republic will have to implement Community directives and other relevant Community acts in its national legislation and that on accession it will be subject not only to Community primary law, but also to secondary legislation (e.g. especially regulations), is of fundamental benefit, even though it cannot be quantified.