Efektivní daňové sazby daně z příjmů fyzických osob v zemích EU

This diploma thesis explores effective tax rates of personal income tax in the European Union. It analyzes the tax policy of newer and older EU member states in relation to personal income tax and social security. Structural elements of this tax play an important role in taxation of natural persons and differ vastly in individual states of the EU. The discrepations among the taxation rates can cause serious problems in the functioning of the single market of the EU. The EU aims to coordinate and harmonize the direct taxes, which would remove the obstacles to the single market functioning. The taxation of natural persons shows apparent mutual differences among the states -- not just regarding rates of this particular tax -- resulting from cultural customs. These differences do not, so far, enable the approximation of individual states in natural persons' taxation and create space for possible tax competition.