D14 - Household Saving; Personal FinanceReturn

This paper presents a large-scale study that deals with tax literacy and represents the largest research contribution published to date in this area. The study results indicate that approximately one-third of secondary school pupils do not know the basic VAT rate or how important this tax is for the state budget. Only one in ten pupils noted that personal income tax includes two bands of the rate. The results come from questionnaire surveys at domestic secondary schools with the participation of almost 500 pupils from five types of secondary schools analyzed using the chi-square test of independence method. The gender factor does not affect the tax literacy of secondary school students (p-value 0.8407); on the contrary, tax literacy differs depending on the type of school attended (p-value 0) and, at the same time, dependence between the level of tax literacy and the pupil's relationship to taxes (p-value 0.0142) has been demonstrated.

The article is focused on insurance products related to the indebtedness of Czech households in the area of consumer loans. The aim of this paper is, with the help of defined assumptions, to analyse the product payment protection insurance, its benefit to the final client and identify its appropriate use in the event of an economically rationally behaving entity. The authors analyse insurance conditions and define the pros and cons of insurance for supply-side and demand-side, and also focuses on information asymmetry. For completeness, the text is supplemented also in terms of cost of insurance, through the APR and development of acquisition costs for insurance contracts. Results of the analysis indicate not suitably configured product for clients, as evidenced by the low long-term value of loss ratio indicator, and information superiority on the supply side.