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-payment life annuity would increase the benefits of this release. The tax treatment of these annuities is, however, very strict in … would influence tax receipts. We recommend that a rate-of-return allowance should be applied, leaving risk-free interest … rate and mortality bonus untaxed. We show that adoption of this tax rule is likely to increase tax revenue, since it would …
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features of the Finnish tax system regarding the taxation of dividends from non-listed companies. We use firm-level data to … illustrate how the tax incentives are reflected in firms’ profit distribution policies. We then build a dynamic investment model …
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production technologies. We find that the current tax system is likely to distort resource allocation compared to linear dividend …
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expenditures, and tax revenues. We also consider the reform that has been proposed by the current government (in 2016) which …
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-term care insurance would increase the benefits of housing equity release. However, there is virtually no market for such … insurance in Finland. This report illustrates the benefits of life annuities and long-term care insurance, provides example of …
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Euro Area member states have agreed to introduce a structural budget balance target to their national legislation (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance). However, there exists no commonly agreed methodology to calculate this macroeconomic indicator. This report presents the...
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This paper studies the effects of discretionary fiscal policy shocks under different exchange rate regimes within a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model. We first suggest that by estimating the effects of fiscal policy shocks in two structurally similar small open economies that have...
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This paper studies real-time measures of the output gap and fiscal policy stance estimates for EU countries. We construct a comprehensive real-time data set on fiscal forecasts and study whether there are systematic differences between the European Commission and IMF estimates of the output gap...
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This paper provides a characterization of the fiscal policy framework in four established federal countries with heterogeneous intergovernmental relations and demographic characteristics: Canada, Germany, Switzerland and the United States. We consider the implications of fiscal federalism from...
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In the report we analyse the reasons for the weakness of Finland’s economic performance over the past decade and assess the growth prospects in the coming 5 years. The weakness of Finland’s performance relative to comparative EU-countries since 2009 can largely be explained by the collapse...
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