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TLR-Session 1
TLR-Session 1
TLR-Session 1
Mijares
Taxation Law Review First Semester, AY 2019-2020
TODAY
General Principles of Taxation
Concept, Underlying Basis, and Purpose of Taxation
What is Taxation
Purpose of Taxation
WHAT IS TAXATION
Taxation is –
the power by which the sovereign, through its law-making
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Not a voluntary payment or donation May also be levied on acts, transactions, rights or privileges
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TAXATION, POLICE POWER, AND EMINENT TAXATION, POLICE POWER, AND EMINENT
DOMAIN DOMAIN
Similarities Distinctions
They all rest upon necessity because there can be no Criteria Taxation Police Power Eminent Domain
effective government without them As to authority May be exercised only by government May be granted to
They all underlie and exist independently of the which exercises or its political subdivision public service
the power companies or
Constitution
public utilities
Although the conditions for their exercise may be prescribed
As to purpose Property is taken Use of property is Property is taken
by the Constitution and by law for the support of regulated to for public use or
They are ways by which the State interferes with private the government promote the benefit
general welfare
rights and property
As to persons Operates upon a community or a class Operates on an
They are all legislative in nature and character affected of entities or individuals entity or
They all presuppose an equivalent compensation individual as the
owner of a
received, directly or indirectly, by the person affected by particular
the exercise of these powers by the government property
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TAXATION, POLICE POWER, AND EMINENT TAXATION, POLICE POWER, AND EMINENT
DOMAIN DOMAIN
Distinctions Distinctions
Criteria Taxation Police Power Eminent Domain Criteria Taxation Police Power Eminent Domain
As to effect Money collected There is no Transfer of right As to amount of Generally, there is Amount imposed The owner is paid
become public transfer of title to property to the imposition no limit on the should not be the market value
funds government (in amount of tax more than of the property
ownership or sufficient to cover taken
lesser rights) the cost of the
As to benefits Taxpayer receives Person affected Person affected license and
received protection and does not receive receives the necessary
benefits from the direct or market value of expenses or cost
government immediate benefit the property of regulation
taken As to Subject to certain Relatively free Inferior to the
relationship to constitutional from prohibition
the Constitution limitations constitutional against
limitation impairment of
obligation of
contracts
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SCOPE
Scope or extent of taxation is as broad as the purpose
for which it is given – the support of the government to
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