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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 …
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Tax revenues at 20% of GDP remain low compared to other Latin American countries and the OECD average and tax evasion … than households. Therefore, Colombia needs a comprehensive tax reform that boosts revenues and shifts the tax burden to … support more inclusive and green growth. Tax loopholes and exemptions that reduce the tax base and favour mainly the rich …
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Reforms over the past two decades have produced a well-balanced, modern tax system. However, considerable revenues will … of total tax revenue but are levied on small tax bases, partly reflecting the distribution of income. A revenue source … less detrimental to growth is consumption taxes, which are mostly raised by the relatively broad value-added tax …
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poverty. The tax-to-GDP ratio is low relative to other emerging market economies. The difficulty is to raise revenues without … denting growth or worsening inequality. Successive reforms have modernised the tax administration and increased the number of … taxpayers. Nonetheless, raising compliance is an ongoing challenge and investing in the tax administration rightly remains a …
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The sharp rise in debt experienced by most OECD countries raises questions about the prudent debt level countries should target. It also raises questions about the fiscal frameworks needed to reach them and to accommodate cyclical fluctuations along the path towards a prudent debt target. The...
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results are robust across a range of econometric specifications and labour tax indicators …
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We use a panel of 16 OECD countries over several decades to investigate the effects of government debts and deficits on long-term interest rates. In simple static specifications, a one-percentage-point increase in the primary deficit relative to GDP increases contemporaneous long-term interest...
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Many economists are convinced that longer-term benefits from fiscal consolidation are in a trade-off with short …
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The prevalence of either Ricardian or non-Ricardian fiscal regimes is important both for practical policy reasons and to assess fiscal sustainability, and this is of particular relevance for European Union countries. The purpose of this paper is to assess, with a panel data set, the empirical...
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Using vector autoregressions on U.S. time series for 1957-1979 and 1983-2004, we find government spending shocks to have stronger effects on output, consumption, and wages in the earlier sample. We try to account for this observation within a DSGE model featuring price rigidities and limited...
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