The tax management issue is one of the key problems of the tax system functioning, and consequently it is a problem of the economic and the tax security of the state. The necessity of improving the tax law not by introducing new taxes, but by improving the administration of existing ones was repeatedly noted. This position was stated by Dmitry Medvedev at the XIII International Investment Forum “Sochi-2014″, it also was said at the eighth meeting of the Tax Administration Forum. At meetings of the government A. Siluanov noted the importance of convergence of tax and accounting. It was said that it can improve the quality of financial statements, however without the expense of the taxpayer. In addition, the relevance of the problem is confirmed by the difficult economic situation in the country and the world, when due to the introduction of some sanctions, the state needs the more rational and effective using of internal resources for raising funds, particularly effective using of tax revenues.
But turn to the tax management as a tool of improving the efficiency of tax revenue and explore analytical information from two sides: analyze the statistics of tax offenses and related with it effects of the economic damage on the one hand, and indicators of economic activity SRO of auditors in terms of increasing their reserves of efficiency by strengthening the role of tax Audit in compulsory audit, on the other hand.
The analysis shows following statements:
1. According to analyze the statistics, the number of economic crimes tends to decrease, in 2012-2013 it was 18%, but it does not say about their actual decrease, rather it shows the lack of crimes solved in this area.
2.Dinamic of tax character crimes does not correlate with the dynamics of economic crimes in general, it also does not correlate with the dynamics of the material damage due to tax crimes. So we understand that this kind of crimes should be researched separately from others, in this situation particularly acute information shortage for the investigation of tax crimes.
Obviously, despite of the high value of absolute indicators of the tax criminality, the lowest value relative indicators was recorded. So we can conclude that the decline of tax crime quantity is not so important as a decreasing of damage from each specific delict.
3. The revenue structure of 5 SRO in 2013 is distributed with the same character as their their membership structure - the largest share is in APR.
4. SRO Membership dynamics had a tendency to decrease in 2012-2013, the decline was 4.5%.
5. Income dynamics tends to lowing of augmentation , it was 24.8% in 2011-2012,but it has only 3.1% in 2012-2013.
Сonsidering the downward trend of the members number and incomes of SRO, we can talk about outflow of auditors from this activity due to a considerable reduction in the volume of work, in particularly compulsory and initiative audit. This kind of work concentrated mainly in a limited list of auditing companies and it does not allow to develop this activity. However, giving the estimate of economic crime, we can state the global need in the development and expansion of the audit services market in order to improve the effectiveness of the control checking activities towards economic entities.
In this context, we can note also that there is a reserve of the SRO revenue increasing, primarily, on account of membership fees increasing . But it is not owing to increasing the amount contributed , but to increasing the share of members with the higher income and members number. In fact, these figures are the basis for calculating the fee. According to this, the higher income and members number lead to the greater fee.
The organizations can improve these figures on account of the introduction of new services. Particularly , nowadays the tax audit and tax consulting which is based on it are optional during the compulsory audit. By that the implementation of the tax audit by the audit organizations does not intersects with professional obligations of the tax authorities. The inclusion of it in the required activities of the auditing firms could increase the income of audit organizations, respectively income of SRO, which is generated from contributions. It also can reduce tax risks, bankruptcy risk, which is a result of control checking activities by tax authorities and they are expressed in the amounts of additional taxes and penalties.
In addition, the staff of tax inspections is extremely small and share of coverage in this part of the business is also low. And despite of the fact that now there is actively work on projects of a bills in tax consulting and monitoring , their potential is in the future. However, audit firms have real resources allowing to work with the accounting and tax information in a relationship. So it seems more effective and relevant in terms of convergence of accounting and taxation, as one of the challenges to be addressed in the near future. In this regard, tax consulting service by audit firms workers may be more professional and helpful.
The SRO in this aspect can find a potential for increasing incomes in providing training auditors on matters related to tax accounting, taxation in general. It will also increase the level of literacy as auditors as their clients receiving better and more versatile advice. In this aspect, revenues generated by contributions to external quality control will be also increased.
In this way, tax audit as related services of audit companies will not only contribute to more efficient control of the taxpayers, control of correct calculation of taxes, but also increase the share of tax revenues in the state budget.
In future we plan to expand the list of factors which influences on the formation of the threats and risks of the state tax security. In consequence of that the relevance of the tax audit will be increased.
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