Abstract: The authors of the article raise the question about the interrelation between socio-economic indicators of the country development and the development level of the country international tax policy instruments. The first part of the research is devoted to the theoretical analysis of the concept of international tax policy and analysis of the definitions that it has today. The authors offer their own definition of international tax policy providing that it has two antagonistic areas, prevention of tax avoidance and economic activity incentives. The authors also systematize instruments and mechanisms that different countries use to develop their international tax policy. The second part of the research is devoted to the practical study of the interaction between socio-economic features of the country and the development level of international tax policy instruments. For this purpose the authors describe the roles of the analyzed countries on the world capital market and build a scoring correlation model that allows to evaluate the relationship between analyzed socio-economic indicators and indicators of international tax policy in these countries. Despite the fact that international tax policy is formed by very similar instruments in nearly all countries of the world, the results of this research demonstrate that the contents of international tax policy varies from one country to another and mainly depend on particular socio-economic factors. 

Abstract: In this article the authors analyze efficiency of VAT tax rebates for IT companies. In particular, they analyze particular features of rebate application such as the collective influence of the rebate on the taxation system and economnic processes in general, efficiency of the rebate from the point of view of achieving the objectives it is supposed to achieve, and the description of the VAT tax rebate in the Russian Tax Code. The results of the critical analysis demonstrate that the existing mechanism of encouraging innovative activity of IT companies by the means of the VAT tax rebate creates numerous effects that interfere with the economic solutions and tax system, the description of the tax rebate is far from being perfect and this creates a great number of tax debates about how to apply the VAT tax rebate. The results also show that there is no proof that the application of the VAT tax rebate is efficient.