Tax reforms are crucial to promoting inclusive growth in India. The replacement of a myriad of consumption taxes by a … Goods and Services Tax (GST) will boost India's competitiveness, investment, job creation and tax compliance. The potential … productivity by reducing distortions in the allocation of resources which emanate from the corporate income tax; iv) boost job …

a way that minimises deadweight costs and distortions weighing on growth and employment. Reducing further the tax wedge …

the experience of 34 OECD countries over 1980-2014 to assess the effects of changes in the tax structure on the long … while keeping government size constant typically lift long-term output per capita when they involve cuts in the labour tax …-income effects of revenue-neutral reductions in labour tax wedges are broadly in line with intuition: the relative position of those …

to achieve convergence of policy outcomes to OECD upper standards is challenging. Efficiency gains in the tax system … could bring additional revenues. The tax base should be expanded by reducing informality, strengthening tax administration … unemployment and income inequality, the tax-benefit system should also be revised as it is now relatively regressive and the tax …