Valid tax liability of organizations on income tax. Issues of theory and practice

The subject of the study is the mechanism used by tax authorities to charge income tax to organizations. The relevance of the study is due to the systematic incomplete accounting by the tax authorities in the implementation of tax control of expenses incurred by organizations that overestimate their financial results, leading to the economically unjustified and excessively high direct taxation in all types of economic activity.The purpose of the study is to form a direction for improving the mechanism for calculating corporate income tax used by tax authorities in the implementation of tax control and changing tax practices.The study used an analysis of the legal and regulatory framework, tax practice and economic publications on the mechanism of calculating corporate income tax by tax authorities. The result of the study is the conclusion that in the Russian tax systemwhen exercising tax control there is a constant presence of incomplete accounting by tax authorities of expenses incurred by organizations. Such an approach on the part of the state entails an artificial overestimation of profits and economically unjustified excessively high direct taxation. The practice of tax control contradicts the theory of taxation, the conclusions made in economics, the name and economic essence of the income tax. Changes in the practice of profit taxation should exclude arbitrary manipulation with expenses of organizations for tax authorities.The conclusion is made about the need to change the practice of taxation, the importance of the formation by the tax authorities of the actual tax obligations of organizations for income tax based on the actual profit received using the calculation method for the full determination and accounting of all expenses incurred by the taxpayer