Tax Portfolio Optimization of the Hotel Business Entity Based on Tax Control Criteria

¹ Ural State University of Economics, 620144 Ekaterinburg, Russia
² Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Abstract

Tax evasion is quite widespread in the hotel business activities in Russia. This fact does harm not only to the Russian economy as tourism is becoming one of the dynamically developing industries, but also to business entities since the lack of financial visibility contributes to internal thefts in these companies. Regular changes in the tax legislation associated with the growth of tax burden are taken hard by the enterprises of the hotel industry. This problem has become the most acute due to the fact that often companies involved into the hotel business falsify the key figures of financial and economic activity for the purpose of hiding the results of commercial activity in order to reduce or completely avoid paying taxes. The successful operation of the hotel business requires an appropriate tax management system. Tax portfolio development for the hotel business entity can become both a means of further business development and a source of onerous expenses. One of the key factors affecting the composition and amount of the tax portfolio is the use of tax alternatives. The main research goal of this study is to develop scientific and practical recommendations on risk-oriented management of the hotel business tax portfolio through the use of tax portfolio criteria. According to the goal, such objectives have been set and realized in the article as definition of institutional basis of tax control, a research of risk-oriented approach to tax portfolio management and identification of tax risks for any hotel business entity based on tax portfolio criteria.