DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF TAXATION: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INNOVATIVE APPROACHES AND E-AUDITING

Authors

Prof. Hamza Kahriman (ed)
Aydın Adnan Menderes University
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2874-0636

Keywords:

Digital Taxation, E-Audit, Risk Analysis, Behavioral Compliance, Artificial Intelligence, Revenue Administration, Tax Audit, Tax Compliance, Big Data, Public Financial Management

Synopsis

This book examines the transformation of the tax system in Türkiye along three main axes: the dynamics of legal disputes, the consequences of tax amnesties, and the emerging new tax architecture. Tax disputes are primarily evaluated in the context of tax jurisdiction, and three studies on tax jurisdiction are included in this scope. The first of these studies provides an assessment of how civil procedure rules should be applied in tax proceedings when administrative procedure rules are insufficient. Another study on tax disputes evaluates the tax objection and appeal commissions, which resolved some tax disputes in Türkiye before 1982, from a judicial perspective. This section includes discussions on why these bodies cannot be considered a court in terms of certain theoretical guarantees/concepts that a judicial authority should possess. Another study on tax disputes discusses the possibility of violating the right to a fair trial due to the absence of a detailed witness statement system, which is regulated in other branches of law, in tax jurisdiction, which has an autonomous structure in terms of its evidence system compared to other branches of jurisdiction. The common idea of all three studies on tax disputes is that the framework regarding general legal norms should be adopted with a broader perspective in reforms to be made in the field of tax jurisdiction.

The second axis of examination in this book you hold is tax amnesties and their consequences. Two fundamental observations are made regarding this issue: continuously implemented tax amnesties reduce tax revenues and increase disputes between the administration and taxpayers. The first study related to discussions on the re-formation of the tax system, which constitutes the third axis of the book's perspective, is the section that addresses the impact of economic crimes on tax crimes. Discussions regarding the Global Minimum Corporate Tax, brought up by the OECD in response to the erosion of national tax bases caused by the increasing capital mobility of multinational corporations with globalization and digitalization processes, are also included in the book as another section. The section discussing the procedures followed in the taxation of the barber profession, an important profession in daily life, presents the differences arising from the preferred regulations in the formation of the tax structure through country comparisons.

The common premise of the book is clear: A permanent reform is possible not only through penal sanctions, amnesties, one-time incentives, or digitalization; but through regulations where justice, transparency, trust in the system and institutions are strengthened, individual behaviors are centered, tax culture is developed, and the language of legislation is made more understandable. Such a system will increase the sustainability of public revenues while rebuilding the balance between taxpayer rights and obligations on the basis of institutional legitimacy.

Author Biographies

Prof. Hamza Kahriman, Aydın Adnan Menderes University

Kahriman, Hamza
Prof. Hamza Kahriman serves as a faculty member at the Department of Public Finance, Faculty of Political Sciences, Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Türkiye. Kahriman completed undergraduate education at Manisa Celal Bayar University in the department of Public Finance in 2000, master's education at Dokuz Eylul University in the department of Fiscal Law in 2003, and Ph.D. degree from Manisa Celal Bayar University in the field of Public Finance in 2010. Primary research interests include fiscal law, history of public finance, public finance. Kahriman has national and international articles and book chapters published in Turkish and English. Selected published books include Karneli Years.
E-mail: hamza.kahriman@adu.edu.tr | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2874-0636

Prof. Zeynep Arıkan, Dokuz Eylul University

Arıkan, Zeynep
Prof. Zeynep Arıkan serves as a head of department at the Department of Public Finance, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Dokuz Eylul University, İzmir, Türkiye. Arıkan completed undergraduate education at Dokuz Eylul University in the department of Public Finance in 1986, master's education at Dokuz Eylul University in the department of Fiscal Law in 1988, and Ph.D. degree from Dokuz Eylul University in the field of Public Finance in 1995. Primary research interests include fiscal law. Arıkan has national and international articles and book chapters published in Turkish and English. Selected published books include Tax Procedure Law, Turkish Tax System, Resolution of Tax Disputes at the Administrative Stage and Turkish Tax Judiciary, Fiscal Domicile in Turkish Tax Law, Ex Officio Tax Assessment.
E-mail: zeynep.arikan@deu.edu.tr | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6710-171X

Prof. Engin Hepaksaz, Izmir Katip Celebi University

Hepaksaz, Engin
Prof. Engin Hepaksaz serves as a head of department of fiscal law at the Department of Public Finance, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Izmir Katip Celebi University, İzmir, Türkiye. Hepaksaz completed undergraduate education at Dokuz Eylul University in the department of Public Finance in 1994, master's education at Manisa Celal Bayar University in the department of Theory of Public Finance in 1997, and Ph.D. degree from Dokuz Eylul University in the field of Public Finance in 2007. Primary research interests include fiscal law. Hepaksaz has national and international articles and book chapters published in Turkish and English. Selected published books include Administrative Law in the Light of Tax Disputes and Judicial Decisions – Tax Law Relations and the Element of Authority, E-Government and E-Fiscal Applications in Turkey.
E-mail: engin.hepaksaz@ikcu.edu.tr | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4383-4091

Asst. Prof. Gazi Sonkur, Sivas Cumhuriyet University

Sonkur, Gazi
Asst. Prof. Gazi Sonkur serves as a head of budget and fiscal planning department at the Department of Public Finance, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Türkiye. Sonkur completed undergraduate education at Dokuz Eylul University in the department of Public Finance in 1996, master's education at Dokuz Eylul University in the department of Fiscal Law in 2000, and Ph.D. degree from Dokuz Eylul University in the field of Public Finance in 2017. Primary research interests include fiscal law, fiscal policies, budget and fiscal planning. Sonkur has national and international articles and book chapters published in Turkish and English. Selected published books include Relationship Between Election Economics and Tax Policies in Turkey.
E-mail: gazisonkur@cumhuriyet.edu.tr | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4299-0981

Gülay Sezen

Sezen, Gülay
Gülay Sezen (İzmir, Türkiye) is an independent researcher. Sezen completed undergraduate education at Dokuz Eylul University in the department of Public Finance in 1989, master's education at Dokuz Eylul University in the department of Economic Law in 2020. Primary research interests include economic law, public finance. Sezen has national and international articles published.
E-mail: gulay.sezen@hotmail.com

Merve Dalkılıç, Sivas Cumhuriyet University

Dalkılıç, Merve
Merve Dalkılıç is a master's student in Public Finance, Institute of Social Sciences, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Türkiye. Dalkılıç completed undergraduate education at Bursa Uludag University in the department of Public Finance in 2016. Primary research interests include public finance.
E-mail: merveedalkilic@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7169-7415

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