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Equal taxation as a...
Equal taxation as a basis for classifying financial instruments as debt or equity - a Swedish case study
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- Hilling, Axel (författare)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Institutionen för handelsrätt,Ekonomihögskolan,Department of Business Law,Lund University School of Economics and Management, LUSEM
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- Vilhelmsson, Anders (författare)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Företagsekonomiska institutionen,Ekonomihögskolan,Department of Business Administration,Lund University School of Economics and Management, LUSEM
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(creator_code:org_t)
- 2015
- 2015
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: eJournal of Tax Research. - 1448-2398. ; 13:3, s. 677-715
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Abstract
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- This article examines the way in which classification of financial instruments as debt or equity has developed in the Swedish income taxation system over the past 25 years. Although the structure of the tax system is based on the assumption that debt instruments are financial instruments with low risk, legal developments have not shared that assumption, resulting in several types of high-risk derivative instruments being covered by the definition of legal debt. This article illustrates how those developments, which can be recognized in most income-tax systems within OECD countries, seriously threatens the fundament of the tax system: equal taxation for capital income and income from labor. The article concludes by illustrating how the standard solution to the problem of classifying financial instruments as debt and equity – by treating them alike – does not fulfill the challenged principle of equal taxation, but actually intensifies the development towards unequal taxation.
Ämnesord
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Juridik -- Juridik och samhälle (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Law -- Law and Society (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Debt
- Equity
- Derivatives
- Income tax
- Flat tax
- Financial theory
- Swedish tax law
- Horizontal equity
Publikations- och innehållstyp
- art (ämneskategori)
- ref (ämneskategori)
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