EVALUATION OF TAXATION IN AFGHANISTAN IN COMPARISON TO TURKEY

Abstract

Tax is an effective way for influencing the behaviours of buyers. This is both an advantage, on account of utilizing Taxes to discourage, or encourage to support the utilization of some goods, additionally a disadvantage as a consequence of the negative motivation impacts that redistributive taxes creates. The support for Tax may be absolutely powerful, when taxation is welfare making strides. Anyway, when the support for tax strategy is in light of contemplation of correspondence countries, the optimal of such tax gets to be more an issue of qualities.

It is a also well-established fact that the government bureaucracy in many developing countries is large, difficult to understand, non-transparent and time-conamounting, Afghanistan is also among those countries which experiments a huge bureaucracy, especially in collecting taxes however, procedures sometimes have little to do with how firms or individuals actually go about when dealing with the government bureaucracy.

Also a comparison between two countries at different stages of development is always a difficult task. Indeed, drawing lessons from one country does not mean a simple application of procedures that have proved to be successful in a foreign land. In fact, taxation may play the central role in building and sustaining the power of states, and shaping their ties to society.

However, is not to claim that taxation is an unambiguously and universally positive activity; much depends on the way in which states and the societies either achieve or fail to negotiate revenue generation.

There are only a very limited number of instruments at a government’s disposal when it tries to stimulate long-run growth, and one of these instruments is tax system. That is why it’s very important to analyze the way in which taxation influence economic growth. This problem is especially vital for the countries suffering very low growth (Afghanistan is among them). Unfortunately, there was no significant change in Afghanistan tax system during past 30 years but the present system needs changing badly, because it lacks both economic efficiency and social equity.