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 …

, 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 …

. 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 …

This paper examines the effects of a unilateral reform of the redistribution policy in an economy open to international … under international trade compared to autarky, a unilateral tax increase leads to a less pronounced decline in aggregate … tax rates. We highlight as a key mechanism a tax-induced reduction in the market size of the reforming country relative to …

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 …

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …

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 …

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 …