Carousel fraud

This diploma thesis is focused on the analysis of specific type of Value Added Tax fraud called carousel fraud. The main object is to analyse and quantify tax fraud impact specifically oriented to VAT area, i.e. carousel fraud, and suggest the way of prevention which prevent its emergence and expansion in domestic economy. In the theoretical part the information about VAT, the Czech Law on Value Added Tax, EU directive on the common system of Value Added Tax and carousel fraud is described and furthermore, the losses to carousel fraud are mentioned. The practical part is applied to analysis of profit from carousel fraud as a whole and profits of individual participants in carousel fraud, analysis of the Court of Justice of the European Union judgements and the Supreme Administrativ Court of the Czech Republic judgements and carousel fraud prevention in the EU and at home