Еволюція пільгового оподаткування інноваційної діяльності в Україні
Evolution of Preferential Taxation of Innovative Activity in Ukraine

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to identify trends in the development of preferential taxation of innovative activity in Ukraine and to substantiate approaches to the formation of a mechanism for providing tax incentives for subjects of innovation activity aimed at providing favorable conditions for the formation and functioning of innovatively active enterprises and the development of national innovative economic system.It is determined that the preferential taxation of innovation activity is to encourage business entities to carry out research and development work, use and commercialization of their results, implementation of innovations, modernization of production and more. The basis for preferential taxation is the system of providing tax benefits. In Ukraine, tax benefits, as provided by the Tax Code, are provided through: tax deduction (discounts), which reduces the tax base before tax; reduction of tax liability after tax; setting a reduced tax rate; tax exemption.Based on the provisions of the regulatory acts that regulate innovation activity, the main stages of the evolution of preferential taxation of innovation activity in Ukraine are determined. Their analysis shows the absence of a number of tax breaks popular in the developed countries of the world, which are aimed at stimulating the development of the national innovation ecosystem. At present, the Tax Code of Ukraine defines only the procedure for granting a narrowed list of benefits within a small number of activities, which attests to the fact that there is no effective mechanism for preferential taxation of innovative activity. Within the domestic tax system, tax incentives aimed at the development and activation of innovative activities are reduced every year. The negative features of tax legislation reform in recent years (since the adoption of the Tax Code) are the gradual abolition of most of the benefits related to the processes of regulating and stimulating innovation.The main directions of improvement of tax legislation in terms of granting tax privileges to the subjects of innovative activity are defined (needs improvement of the terminology apparatus; the list of activities that are priorities for the national innovation economic system should be clearly defined; the same approach and procedure for granting tax benefits for all priority activities should be established). The approach to the formation of the mechanism of provision of tax benefits from basic taxes, elements of which have a powerful potential of stimulating influence on the activation of the processes of formation and functioning of innovatively active enterprises (income tax, value added tax and personal income tax) is substantiated.The provision of tax benefits to the subjects of innovation activity should be based on a systematic approach based on the interconnection and coherence of innovation policy with all components of the socio-economic policy of the state and the integration of tax benefits in the state strategic plans developments of the sphere of innovation activity.

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