Features of VAT Accounting and Fiscality – History, Practices and Prospects

Violeta Isai () and Riana Iren Radu
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Violeta Isai: Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania

Economics and Applied Informatics, 2013, issue 3, 17-22

Abstract: The value-added tax (VAT) is an indirect tax, supported by the final consumer of the good/service that it is applied. During the productive and commercial cycle, the companies pay VAT according to the value added on the good/service. Quite recently appeared in the fiscal system of different states, VAT has a big spreading area. The taxation rates are different from a country to another, according to the economic conditions and the fiscal law (in EU, from 15% for Cyprus and Luxembourg to 27% for Hungary, and outside EU, from 3% for Iran, to 25% for Norway). In Romania, the rates are: the standard rate of 24% and the reduced rates of 9% and 5%, the payment term being monthly or quarterly, according to the company turnover. In the accounting and fiscality area, VAT presents special features, conditioned by the type of activity and the company size. In order to support the small companies, starting with 01.01.2013 the “VAT Encashment System” was introduced, that relates the VAT payability to the encashment moment of the invoice. The VAT impact on the profitability is an aspect that must be considered when we discuss about: costs, cash-flow, results, liquidity, solvency or efficiency rates.

Keywords: Indirect tax; Added value; Deductibility; Payability; Taxation base; Rate; Regularization; Payment term; Repayment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H20 H32 M21 M41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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