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The paper, based on primary research and evaluation of data from the Financial Administration of the Czech Republic, evaluates housing support in the form of tax deduction of mortgage interest from the tax base in the Czech Republic. Research has shown that this support undermines horizontal and vertical tax fairness and excludes assistance to taxpayers with incomes below the taxable amount. Housing support is not conceptual and lacks control and feedback mechanisms. However, distributional effects need to be taken into account when considering tax reforms, especially for indebted and cash-strapped households. However, we do not recommend completely canceling the tax deduction, which would limit household budgets and young families' access to their own housing. Younger taxpayers mainly use the tax deduction, and the abolition of the tax deduction would increase housing costs for these taxpayers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on tax relief individuals that are used to support other desirable public policy. They may represent hidden subsidies in the tax system, reducing tax revenue and complications in the administration. Analysis of tax reliefs is complicated because their uniform definition does not exist. They can mean deductions from the tax base (tax allowances), the tax relief or the tax credit, which reduce the actual tax liability. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the scope of use of tax reliefs, which are granted to individuals in the Czech Republic, in the form of non-taxable portion of the tax. Methodically, the research relies on the evaluation of secondary statistical data of the Czech Republic Financial Management and is based on aggregated data from tax returns filed for the years 2005 - 2014, which are statistically processed further. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]