Improvement and Transformation of Companies’ Tax Management Practices

An important process in company’s tax management is the formation and optimisation of an accounting policy for tax purposes that can ensure an increase in the mass of tax benefits for an economic entity - a taxpayer. The paper substantiates the relevance and necessity of tax management. The purpose of tax management is to increase the economic efficiency of an economic entity and to ensure the entity is economically and legally secure. Tax management also functions as a tool for the entity's success hence accurate and complete information and methodological support are needed for its execution. The author considers the lower level of tax management — the level of taxpayer organisations whose main task is to maintain and increase their financial well-being. The tax legislation of the Russian Federation uses the term ‘accounting policy for tax purposes’. The policy acts as a documentary confirmation of the methods chosen by a company to optimise tax payments within the legal framework. The author views the features of the process and procedure for the formation of an accounting tax policy, and in the context of the identified features — provides directions for improving the accounting policy document. The gradual expansion of understanding of the meaning and functionality of tax management for a company is also pointed out. The traditional understanding was assumed to be the basis of tax management activity, the search for gaps in tax legislation and their use to the benefit of the company at the operational-tactical level. It is now believed that tax management should be strategic, including cooperation with government agencies in order to change the legal system and to create new exemptions for specific industries and types of enterprises.