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São Tomé and Príncipe is very open and highly depends on imports resulting in high indirect tax revenue. At the same time, the production and export base are very narrow, leaving the authorities with a small domestic tax base. For these reasons, the country compares unfavorably with...
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recurrent themes, as well as some of the most important tax reform proposals put forward over the past two decades. It finds …
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We use the IMF's Global Fiscal Model to evaluate recent proposals to reform social security and the tax system in the … income is beneficial, but only if the reform is revenue neutral. Debtneutral social security and tax reform in the United …
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Global economic integration intensified tax competition and raised concerns about the resulting "race to the bottom", which could undermine public investment and social spending. The aim of this paper is to test predictions that (i) there is interdependence in CIT rate setting in Eastern Europe...
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including reducing some direct tax rates, should be considered. The overall reform package could be made broadly revenue neutral …
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This paper reviews the tax policy debate in the United States on the move of the corporation tax from its present worldwide basis to a territorial basis, and considers the implications for the United States and the rest of the world. It finds that there is no clear view on whether the move would...
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This paper studies an optimal tax problem for a small open economy where collecting taxes is costly. It is shown that, in the presence of collection costs modeled as an increasing function of the tax rate: (a) the standard rules of optimal commodity taxation (the Ramsey, the inverse elasticity,...
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a theoretical and empirical assessment of the Brazilian ACE variant. The main finding is that the Brazilian reform … increased. Investment appears to have benefited from the reform, although the extent to which this was due to the new structure …
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Motivated by the concern that corporate income tax (CIT) competition may have eroded the tax base, this paper calculates average effective tax rates to measure the impact of CIT competition, including the widespread use of tax holidays, on the tax base for 15 countries in the Caribbean. The...
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This paper provides an overview of the key economic factors that shape tax policy reform in many high-income countries … respect to tax rates and revenue ratios over the last some 20 years, and discusses selected structural reform initiatives that … with the restructuring of corporate tax, the impact of corporate taxes on FDI, key reform initiatives including dual income …
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