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prof. JUDr. Vladimír Babčák, CSc.   SK

Email:
vladimir.babcak@upjs.sk
Homepage:
https://www.upjs.sk/PrF/zamestnanec/vladimir.babcak
Faculty:
PrF UPJŠ - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice Faculty of Law
Department:
KFPDPaE - Department of Financial Law and Tax Law
Office:
LA2O18
Phone:
+42155234 4152
ORCID ID:
0000-0002-9144-6387

Higher education and further qualification growth
Second degree of higher education:
Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Law, 1974, Law/Law
Third degree of higher education:
Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Law, 1983, Economic law and financial law/Economic law and financial law
Associate professor:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Law, 1999, Commercial and financial law/Commercial and financial law
Professor:
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, 2001, Commercial and financial law/Commercial and financial law

Research /art/ teacher profile

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Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
Study programme: Commercial and financial law, study field: Law, III. degree
Study programme: Law, study field: Law, I. degree
Profile courses
Theories of finance and tax law - Commercial and Financial Law, III. degree
Tax Law I. - Law, II. degree
Tax Law II. - Law, II. degree
Indirect taxation in the EU - Commercial and Financial Law, III. degree
Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
Name of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure: Commercial and financial law, study field to which it is assigned: Law
Selected publications

Babčák, V. Daňové právo na Slovensku a v EÚ, EPOS, Bratislava 2019, 910 s.

Babčák, V. a kol.: Finančné právo na Slovensku, EPOS, Bratislava 2017, 505 s. (ss.9 - 292, 466 - 505)

Babčák, V. a kol.: Daňové úniky, ich vznik a eliminácia, ŠafárikPress, Košice 2020, 304 s. (ss.5 - 170)

V. Babčák a kol.: Daňové úniky a daňové podvody a právne možnosti ich predchádzania, UPJŠ, Košice 2018, 457 s. (ss.1 - 20, 39 - 203)

Babčák, V., Popovič, A., Romanová, A. (eds.): Daňové raje a zneužívanie daňového systému, UPJŠ, Košice 2018, 302 s. (ss.9 - 80)

Selected projects

VEGA 1/0375/15 Tax evasion and tax frauds and possibilities of their prevention (by means of tax law, commercial law and criminal law), 01/2015-12/2018 - principal investigator


Tax revenue losses of the state currently reach enormous proportions. It is possible to identify several factors causing these losses, nevertheless, the most significant being mainly tax evasions and tax frauds. The proposed project will therefore focus on examining reasons for the their existence and exploring the possibilities of preventing them at the legislative level. Since the described problem in opinion of the research team reaches critical dimensions, its solution requires an urgent and particularly, comprehensive approach. The project, therefore, proposes in order to solve the studied problem as a necessity the coordination of the instruments not only (albeit mainly) tax law, as well as, other branches of law, i. e. commercial law, as this is the regulator of the environment in which the circumventions and violations of tax law occur, as well as, criminal law, which acts as a tool of repression and prevention with the threat of sanctions associated with the circumvention or violation of tax rules.

APVV-16-0160 Tax evasion and tax avoidance (motivation factors, formation and elimination), 07/2017-06/2020, principal investigator


The existence of tax evasion and avoidance is a permanent problem occurring in modern economies. Finding of a prospective solutions leading to their elimination (in the legislative as well as the non-legal sphere) is considered as one of the key elements leading to economic and social development of society. Attention of the researchers within the proposed project will be directed at areas related to transnational measures (in particular legal factors enabling international tax evasion with an impact on the legal and economic environment in the Slovak Republic), national measures (in particular legal factors of tax evasion) and, within the above mentioned, an interdisciplinary research (including examination of legal factors, economic factors, psychological factors) will be carried out. In this context, the researchers will focus especially on the corporate income tax to provide an interdisciplinary view on the issue of tax evasion and avoidance in terms of identifying specific factors behind the decisions of taxpayers leading to the violation of norms of tax law and their impact in different areas of the economy and social relations.

APVV-19-0124 Tax Law and New Phenomena in the Economy (Digital Services, Sharing Economy, Virtual Currencies), 07/2020-12/2023, co-worker


The project, at the level of basic research, addresses the issues of interdisciplinary character with the impact on the entire society as it is oriented at new phenomena of societal importance connected to the progressive digitization, increasing use of virtual currencies and developing activities within the sharing economy. Within the implementation of the project, these phenomena will be analyzed separately as well as in mutual relations. The aim of the research team members will be to verify the primary hypothesis: "New phenomena in the economy (sharing economy, digital services, virtual currencies) require changes in the existing tax legislation". After the assumed confirmation of the hypothesis, the research team will continue in the follow-up verification in terms of whether the new phenomena in the economy (sharing economy, digital services, virtual currencies) require the introduction of new instruments of tax regulation or the amendment of the existing ones would be sufficient as a basis for the induced future changes to the tax legislation. 

Organisational activities
Rector - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, 2003-2007
Head of the Department of Finance Law, Tax Law and Economics - Pavol Jozef Šafárik university in Košice, Faculty of Law, od 2001
Vice-Dean for Research, PhD Studies and Lifelong Learning - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Law, 2001-2003
Vice-dean for international Relations - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Law, 1993 - 1996
Director of the Institute of Public Administration - Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Law, 1994-1996

Additional information

Awards
- Prize of the Slovak Literary Fund for the scientific and specialized literature 2000 (2001)
- Počesna gramota – Prize awarded by the Minister of Further Education of Ukraine (2005)
- Professor Honoris Causa (“Prof. h. c.”) of the Uniwersytet Rzeszowski (2006)
Projects
• Part of the ŠPZV number VIII – 5 – 8/5 – b „System effectivity of the planning management of the economy” themed „Legal problems of the financial management of the state business organizations“
• Principal investigator of the grant project „Local self-government and State Administration” with the part of „Financial - law problems of forming the income base of municipalities“ (1994 – 1995)
• Principal investigator of the grant project „Legislative and theoretically-practice aspects of the Tax substantive law and Tax procedural law” (1995-1996)
• Principal investigator of the grant project „Tax proceeding and Tax procedural law - legislative and theoretically-practice issues” (2000-2003)
• Scientific co-worker of the grant project number 1/0493/03 „Impact of the business environment on the social–economical development in the Prešov self–governing region“ (2003 - 2005)
• Principal investigator of the grant project number 1/3803/06 „Tax proceeding, tax executor proceeding and related categories of the law processes – theoretical, legislative aspects and implementation aspects (from 2006)
• Scientific co-worker of the grant project number 1/3829/06 “Competitiveness of Prešov self–governing region – resources and accesses to the revitalisation of the Region” (since 2006)
International collaboration
• prof. dr zw. Cezary Kosikowski, Faculty of Law in Varšava
• prof. dr zw Leonard Etel, University of Law in v Bialymstok
• prof. dr zw Eugeniusz Ruškowski, Faculty of Law at the University in Bialymstok
• prof. dr hab. Włodzimierz Nykiel, director of the Centrum Dokumentacji i Studiów podatkowych in Lodž
• prof. dr hab. Jan Gluchowski, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawla II
• prof. JUDr. Milan Bakeš, DrSc., Faculty of Law at the Charles University in Prague
• prof. JUDr. Marie Karfíková, CSc., Faculty of Law at the Charles University in Prague
• prof. dr. Valentinovna Marina M. Sentsova (Karaseva), Voronezh State University, Finance Law Department, Voronezh
Other
• Chairman of departmental committee for the defenses of dissertation thesis in the study programme Commercial and Financial Law
• Supervisor of PhD. students (1 former one and 3 ones at present)
• Chairman, eventually member, of the Habilitation and Inauguration Committees in the field of Commercial and Tax Law
• Chairman of the “Rigorous Thesis” Committee in the study programmes of Financial Law and Tax Law
• Chairman of the Committee for the state final examinations
• Chairman of the Scientific Board of the IVth International research conference „Košice 2005“ held on the Financial Law, Tax Law and Public finances (Košice – 2005)
• Member of the Scientific Boards of the International conferences of the Financial Law and Tax Law (Białystok - 2002, Brno - 2003, Viľňjus - 2004)
• Chairman of the Board of trustees of the Foundation at P. J. Šafárik University in Košice (2003 - 2007)
• Member of the Board of trustees of the Tatranská akadémia, n.o. (from 2005)
Hobbies
music, sport, farm housing

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