Problems of classification of movable and immovable property for tax purposes as a factor in the investment policy of enterprises

The paper considers the problem of differentiation of movable and immovable property in the aspect of destabilization of the investment climate in the Russian Federation. Based on the analysis of the dynamics of macroeconomic indicators in connection with the direction of development of judicial practice in recent years, the relevance and significance of the negative effect exerted by the volatility of the approaches used to assess the characteristics of fixed assets on the investment policy of enterprises is substantiated. In particular, attention is focused on the dynamics of the share of the total value of taxable real estate in its total aggregate. The author aggregates the fundamental signs of recognition of property as movable/immovable for the purposes of tax legislation, evaluates them for compliance with the principles of building the tax system and the declared goals of tax policy, thereby identifying the fundamental basis for further reform of property taxation. The following research methods are used in the work: dialectical, logical, comparative legal, statistical data processing method, comparative analysis, synthesis, method of grouping and tabular presentation of information. The study suggests a formula for developing directions for improving the mechanism of property classification for tax purposes as a factor in the growth of investment attractiveness in the Russian Federation. The author emphasizes the many internal contradictions of the definition of immovable property in civil legislation in the case of its application for the purpose of characterizing property in the tax aspect, and therefore proposes to limit its use to additional parameters. The proposed new approach to the classification of fixed assets is based not around the assessment of specific property objects, but around groups and clusters of such objects combined according to the accounting procedure, which will eliminate the shortcomings of current approaches to property classification.

property tax, real estate, classification of property, investment, movable and immovable, investment activity, property taxation, taxation procedure, movable property, immovable property