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 …

This paper analyses income inequality in Ireland using a new panel dataset based on the administrative tax records of … deterioration of the labour market. The data confirms that the tax system is highly progressive at the high end of income … function in the tax and benefit system was enhanced during the last decade, not only because more income support was …

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 …

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …

democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over … three most important issues in the field: (1) the evolution of the power to tax in (what are now) the mature constitutional …

the joint determination of the non-linear monitoring and tax schedules and the conditions under which these can be … implemented. Monitoring of labor effort reduces the distortions created by income taxation and raises optimal marginal tax rates …, possibly above 100 percent. The optimal intensity of monitoring increases with the marginal tax rate and the labor …

. This review examines ways forward for policy on several fronts: indirect taxation; household income tax and social benefits …Ensuring tax and transfer systems bring sufficient revenue to reach macroeconomic fiscal targets, address societal … goals in re-distribution and social welfare, recognise the influence taxation has on businesses’ competitiveness and …

. First, it argues that Chile needs to increase income redistribution through its tax and transfer system towards levels …