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Increasing Efficiency and Reducing Complexity in the Tax System in the United States
Herd, Richard - 2001
of improvements that could help reduce the distortions that taxation creates in the economy and so boost long …-run economic performance. The most noticeable gains could come from reforming the taxation of the income from capital. Savings are … income depending on the sector in which it is invested and the financing instruments that are used. In addition, taxation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445968
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Increasing Simplicity, Neutrality and Sustainability: A Basis for Tax Reform in Iceland
Herd, Richard; Thorgeirsson, Thorsteinn - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2001
This paper analyses the possibilities for reforming the Icelandic tax system. It puts the current tax structure in its historic context, showing that there has been a steady movement towards simplification. The personal income tax has a lower than average number of bands and, taxes capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046060
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Increasing Efficiency and Reducing Complexity in the Tax System in the United States
Herd, Richard; Bronchi, Chiara - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2001
of improvements that could help reduce the distortions that taxation creates in the economy and so boost long …-run economic performance. The most noticeable gains could come from reforming the taxation of the income from capital. Savings are … income depending on the sector in which it is invested and the financing instruments that are used. In addition, taxation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046238
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Import and Export Price Equations for Manufactures
Herd, Richard - 1987
This paper presents a new system for the consistent determination of import and export prices of manufactured products for use in the world trade block of the OECD INTERLINK model. It uses a system design which directly couples the bilateral determinants of export prices with the bilateral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445705
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Fiscal Prospects and Reforms in India
Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam; Koen, Vincent - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
. Corporate income tax rates are being cut, though the headline rate remains high. Lower taxation for large special economic zones …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364448
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Fiscal Policy in India: Past Reforms and Future Challenges
Herd, Richard; Leibfritz, Willi - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008
This paper examines varies areas of India´s fiscal policy, in particular fiscal discipline, the structure of government spending, the tax system and fiscal federalism. It describes reforms over the past decades which, as part of the overall economic reform agenda, helped lifting the Indian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045893