Globalization, Tax Competition and Tax Burden İn Turkey

• Main Authors: Veli KARGI, Tacim YAYĞIR
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Public Finance Conference/Turkey 2016-07-01
• Series: International Journal of Public Finance
• Subjects: Globalization; Tax Competition; Tax Burden in Turkey
• Online Access: http://dergipark.gov.tr/download/article-file/328011

1990’s world was quite different from the world of 1950’s. Especially in the last twenty years, the increasing involvement of Japan in the world economy since the 1990s, in addition to the dominance of globalization and market economy throughout the world, the rapid spread of information resulting from the developments in IT-technology and the international competition emerging in the field of technology have all led to some significant developments in the world economy. Reduction of high mobility income and corporate tax rates due to tax competition may cause an unjust distribution of the tax burden. The fact that indirect taxation constitutes about 70% of the tax revenues obtained in Turkey can be taken as an indication of the unfairness in the distribution of tax burden in Turkey. In this study, following a definition of globalization and tax competition, classification of tax competition, reasons for increasing tax competition, benefits and losses of tax competition are explained, and changes introduced by various countries in their tax systems due to tax competition, the distribution of tax burden resulting from tax competition in Turkey and the effectiveness of the new income tax law in Turkey in terms of tax competition are analyzed.