Analysis of taxation of the controlled foreign corporations owned by tax residents of the Russian Federation

Abstract

The subject of this article is the analysis of aggregated tax indicators of the activity of controlled foreign corporations: the amount of tax payable; the number of controlled foreign corporations; the number of taxpayers who control them. The author analyzes tax indicators of the activity of controlled foreign corporations owned by tax residents of the Russian Federation on corporate income tax and personal income tax; as well as examines potential proceeds from tax imposed on personal fixed income, which will be applicable for 2020. Research methodology is based on the key provisions of international taxation; tax analysis is conducted according to the open data from the reports of the Federal Tax Service for the period from 2015 to 2019 in the federal and regional context with application of analytical, comparative and statistical methods. The scientific novelty consists in interpretation of results acquired from the analysis of tax indicators of the activity of controlled foreign corporations, which allowed spotting trends in their dynamics for determination of feasible variants of tax regulation of such companies. The conclusion is made that the number of taxpayers who control such corporations has grown, but the taxes assessed on the profit of CFC has decreased. The spotted trends in the dynamics of tax indicators of the activity of CFC owned by tax residents of the Russian Federation demonstrate the promising trend of their tax regulation is not as a punitive fiscal function, but rather stimulating, which implies introduction into the Russian tax field of more corporations owned by tax residents of the Russian Federation that are located in the offshore and transit jurisdictions.