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 …

concentrated and the tax and transfer system has little redistributive impact. The tax-to-GDP ratio remains low. Consumption taxes …, which tend to be regressive, account for the bulk. The progressivity of income taxes had been undermined by generous tax … reliefs, which benefit the well-off most and increase tax avoidance opportunities. The tax system should be reformed to …

This paper produces a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution to the working-age population, covering OECD … countries over the last two decades. Redistribution is quantified as the relative reduction in market income inequality achieved … data. A detailed decomposition analysis uncovers the respective roles of size, tax progressivity and transfer targeting for …

so as to achieve the same amount of redistribution at lower cost. The French tax code should be simplified and changed … less frequently. High statutory rates are coupled with a wide range of effective tax rates resulting from a multitude of … tax expenditures. There is a need for base broadening combined with lower rates throughout the system, including VAT. The …

This paper provides an empirical investigation on the drivers of tax and transfer income redistribution to working … technological change. The baseline model is augmented with major direct policy drivers of income redistribution covering tax revenue … contributed to the decline in income redistribution include a flattening of the tax schedule in the upper-part of the wage …

system. While it can include a wide range of redistribution schemes depending on political choices, indexation rules should …

would require less pronounced gaps in outcomes and opportunities across social groups and a broader sharing of the benefits …, especially the role of the tax-and-transfer system, and suggests public policies to promote inclusive growth. To a significant … addition, taxes and transfers contribute less to income redistribution than in other OECD countries. If well designed, reforms …

transfer systems tend to reduce work incentives. There is significant room for improvement in the design of the tax and …