Pogodina I.V., Khitskova A.A., Averin A.V. Imbalance of Tax System: Reasons and Ways of Overcoming

Abstract: The article deals with the phenomenon of imbalance of the tax system in the market economy conditions. The authors of the article offer their definition of the imbalance of the country's tax system as a combination of various kinds and forms of the disproportions within its structure that have reached critical scales and thus started to influence the country's tax system. The authors also analyze its causes and conditions and describe processes, phenomena and problems that disturb the balance of the country's tax system. The authors also list the results of the presence of such disproportions in the tax field and give examples of the imbalance of rights and obligations of taxpayers and government agencies. In the course of their research the authors have used general and special sciences research methods such as analysis, synthesis, deduction method, comparative law methods, etc. The topic of the imbalance within the taxation system still needs to be studied further. The authors suppose that science needs to study processes, phenomena and problems that distort the balance of the country's tax system, thus creating a threat for the economic security of the cuontry. In this article the authors offer particular ways of improving the tax system and restoring the disturbed balance. It is concluded that the improvement of the country's tax legislation should be based on the principles (criteria) of efficiency and neutrality of the tax system.

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