the trade-offs and brought into focus the importance of encouraging broad-based advances in employment and productive …

lower labour market attachments. Outcomes in education and health care are subject to inequalities. Family services are …

Taxes and cash transfers reduce income inequality more in France than elsewhere in the OECD, because of the large size … offers. Greater neutrality both across different capital asset classes but also within specific taxes, and shifting taxes … from labour and capital inputs to environmental and property taxes would improve economic outcomes. Likewise, the system of …

. Raising the effectiveness of tax collection, reforming the tax structure towards less distortive taxes and making more out of …

the removal of remaining entry restrictions as well as reductions in trade protection, may reduce firms’ costs and enhance …

taxes from labour to consumption and property offers an avenue to regain eroded competitiveness and to achieve employment … base broadening through reduced tax expenditures in the major direct and indirect taxes, as well as in property taxation …

intervening heavily in the foreign-exchange market, marking a departure from standard practice in inflation targeting. Past …

. Consumption taxes are among the least distortive for growth, and there is considerable scope to increase the reliance on this tax … reallocation of capital towards its most productive use. However, the most distortive Belgian taxes are on labour through their … effects on workers’ labour market decisions. Recognising the latter, the authorities have aimed at reducing taxation on labour …