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 …

, the effectiveness of the electricity tariff as a redistribution device is questionable in the presence of a progressive … income tax schedule. To shed light on this controversy, we structurally estimate a model that combines public utility pricing … 2013, including detailed energy consumption and household income and tax payment characteristics. While the theoretical …

firms. Under certain conditions, any progressive tax reform induces technical change that compresses the pre-tax wage … distribution. The key intuition is that progressive tax reforms tend to increase labor supply of less skilled relative to more … directed technical change effects make the optimal tax scheme more progressive, raising marginal tax rates at the right tail of …

. At an aggregate level, a rise in redistribution induces a compression effect on the distribution of pre-tax returns. In …Wealthier households obtain higher returns on their investments than poorer ones. How should the tax system account for … conventional wisdom, rather than calling for more redistribution, the presence of this scale dependence provides a rationale for …

In this empirical study we assess both linear and nonlinear relationship between total taxation and several tax items … evaluate the effects of taxation on economic growth for both short and long run perspectives, and to find optimal tax threshold … values. We obtain evidence of nonlinear relationships between all tax items, except for corporate income taxation, as well as …

empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government …. The sample covers 36 OECD countries between 2006 and 2019. Our results show that tax revenue decentralization decreases … disasters also deteriorate the negative effect of tax revenue decentralization on public sector efficiency. These results …

We study the consequences of multinational tax avoidance on the structure of government tax revenues. To motivate our … analysis, we show that countries with high revenue losses due to profit shifting have lower corporate tax revenues and rates … and higher indirect tax revenues and rates. To establish causality, we use German municipal data and analyse how changes …

decentralizing income redistribution as it may lead to consistent tax manipulation and large distortions in fiscal policy …The goal of this paper is to study the effects of introducing income redistribution at the municipal level, with the … adoption of local tax progressivity. In particular, we analyse whether this complex fiscal tool modifies the incentives of …