Assessment of the level of tax burden on the economy of the region (for example Crimea)

The purpose of the article is to assess the level of tax burden on the economy of the administrative-territorial units (hereinafter – ATU) region and to determine the parameters of the tax regulations, which are characterized by a high degree of influence on economic processes in the region. Assessment of the impact of tax regulation on the level of economic development is to determine the nature and impact of parameters of tax regulation on the level of region's economic development. According to the author's approach [4], the main phase of the study is to determine the level of the tax burden on the economy of ATU region. The author finds it necessary to take into account the legislatively fixed powers of local authorities for amend the parameters of the tax system, features of the regional structure of tax revenues to the state and local budgets, and trends of socio-economic development. In this regard, assessment of the level of the tax burden on the economy of the region ATU requires consistent realization of several steps: 1) grouping of tax revenues to the state and local budgets by the level of management (const and variable) and type of the object of taxation (taxes on consumption (TC), taxes on capital or property (TP), income taxes or taxes on activity (TI), taxes on labor (TL), environmental and resource-rent nature taxes (TR)), 2) the calculation of indicators of the tax burden level on the economy of the ATU region, highlighting a group of taxes «const» (TC, TP, TI, TL, TR) and group tax «variable» (TC, TP, TI, TL, TR), and 3) grouping ATU region in terms of tax burden. Results of the study allowed to determine for each ATU of Crimea the most effective parameters of tax regulation, which effective use by local government will create conditions for the development of industrial and agricultural production, increase of investment attractiveness, the introduction of energy-saving technologies in the region's economy.