Abstract:
This paper is focused on the evaluation of the tax institutes potential; respectively changes
as a possible tool for economic crisis signs reducing in the case of the European Union. In fact, the
crisis has affected the tax policy of the European Union as well. According to the EU summit in
November 2011, stated that the need for a “pragmatic coordination of the tax policy for the fscal
consolidation and the boost of the economic growth.” Currently there are set limits for individual
types of taxes in the European Union, which personal income taxes remain in the competence of
national governments, while indirect taxes are in the center of the attention and efforts for their
harmonization. Corporate taxes should promote the Free Capital Movement and should not cause
the harmful competition among individual countries, and social and pension systems should not be
a barrier of free setting and investment in EU member states. The article carry out the description
based on the abstraction and analysis and evaluate Commission’s proposals in the feld of taxes
according to economic criteria (the CCCTB, fnancial transaction taxes, and also the so-called
carbon tax and the Green Paper on the future of the VAT). The article focus on the analysis of VAT
rates changes during the economic crisis and study the relationship between the growth rate of GDP
and VAT parameters using statistical methods (correlation analysis especially). As a conclusion,
both identifcation of the mediated relationship between the economic crisis and the increase of
VAT rates needed for the improvement of relations between the revenue and expenditure side of
public budgets, and possible ways of estimates quantifcation of the new tax institutes introduction
into practice can contribute to the ongoing discussion about the importance of deepening of the
tax policies coordination in the EU, respectively the use of taxes as an instrument of the economic
policy in general, as well as the sustainability of the usage of this tool.
