Friday, November 28, 2014

Effective Tax Rate

Effective Tax Rate is the real tax rate that your company is paying - as opposed to its declared (marginal) tax rate. It is calculated by dividing your tax expense by your pre-tax profit (EBT). Depending on how efficient your tax optimization system is, your effective rate can be much lower than your marginal rate, saving you money (sometimes, a lot of money).

Therefore, it is very important to develop and deploy a highly efficient tax optimization system that will minimize your taxes and at the same time keep you out of legal trouble (the latter is never worth it).

You must also keep in mind that you must add your spending on your tax optimization system to your total tax expense to arrive at correct value of your Effective Tax Rate.  

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