Understanding Capital Gains and Losses in Taxation

Capital Gains and Losses

Extending the notion of income includes gains (capital gains) or losses (losses) obtained by transmitting a heritage item of the taxpayer.

Capital Gains and Losses: Questionable Cases

Capital Gains Totally or Partially Absent

Capital Gains Caused by Inflation

The taxpayer sells a part of their heritage, e.g., their home, and gets a price much higher than originally paid for it. The difference between the purchase prices and sales are assumed due to the inflation process that

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Business Strategy: Competition, Value Chain, and Growth

Intensity of Competition

(*) The intensity of competition is related to the degree of concentration or the number of competitors in a market. If the degree of concentration within the largest concentration of NIRA is high, there are fewer competitors, and the industry is more concentrated. Conversely, if there are more competitors in a market, it indicates that this market is more fragmented.

At the extremes, a market with zero competitors would be a monopoly, and perfect competition would involve

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Understanding Annual Accounts: Formation, Audit, and Publication

Expenses and Income

Expenses: Decreases in the net assets of a company during the year, whether in the form of outflows or reductions in asset values, or due to the recognition or increase in the value of liabilities, if not originating in distributions (monetary or otherwise) to the shareholders or owners in such conditions.

Income: Increases in the equity of a company during the year, whether in the form of inflows or increases in the value of assets, or decreases in liabilities, which do not originate

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State and Economy Post-1945: A New Economic Order

The Mixed Economy and the State Since 1945

Since 1945, demand-side changes have led to economic growth. The composition of domestic spending remained relatively stable, with consumption and private investment growing evenly, as expected in a consumer-based economy with mass production. Exports and imports also increased, but the most significant change was the absolute and relative increase in public expenditure, linked to the development of the mixed economy, the welfare state, and democracy itself,

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Market Failures: Understanding Externalities and Public Goods

Item 7: Market Failures: Externalities

We classify market failures into three types:

  • Imperfect competition
  • Externalities
  • Imperfect information

Externalities

Negative Externalities

A negative externality in production occurs when the social cost of producing a quantity (q) exceeds the private cost. For example, if a company is polluting, the amount of pollution it is releasing is greater than the socially optimal amount.

Positive Externalities

A positive externality in production occurs when the social cost

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Money and Banking: Functions, Standards, and Modern Systems

Money and Banking

Money is the generally accepted medium of exchange for transactions and payments for goods and services.

Money originated from the need to replace bartering. Initially, communities accepted any currency, but later, especially to encourage international trade, a standard measure was adopted. The “gold” initiative, mainly led by Venetian bankers, involved receiving gold deposits in escrow from merchants and issuing credit or promissory notes backed by this gold, which served as payment.

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