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 …

The paper analyzes the wage-employment effects of replacing unemployment benefits by negative income taxes. It first … surveys the major equity and efficiency effects of unemployment benefits versus negative income taxes, and summarizes the … that focuses on the relative wage-employment effects of unemployment benefits versus negative income taxes. Finally, it …

This paper assesses the macroeconomic and distributional impact of personal income tax (PIT) reforms in the U … marginal tax rates; (ii) PIT cuts do 'trickle-down' the income distribution: tax cuts stimulate demand for non …-tradable services which raise the wages and employment prospects of low-skilled workers even if the tax cut is not directly incident on …

Using the post-WWII data of U.S. federal corporate income tax changes, within a Smooth Transition VAR, this paper finds … that the output effect of capital income tax cuts is government debt-dependent: it is less expansionary when debt is high … than when it is low. To explore the mechanisms that can drive this fiscal state-dependent tax effect, the paper uses a DSGE …

-binding investment credit limit. Permanent dividend tax reforms distort capital investment decisions in the binding long-run equilibrium …, but are neutral otherwise. Temporary unexpected tax cuts stimulate shortterm real activity in the credit … borrowing position before enacting tax reforms. Finally, permanently lower dividend taxes dampen financial business cycles, and …

This study provides an overview of tax structures in LAC before the COVID-19 pandemic, compares it to OECD countries …, and provides recommendations for growth-friendly and inclusive tax policy reforms. LAC countries collect significantly … lower tax revenue relative to OECD countries and have tax structures that rely excessively on corporate-income taxes (CIT …

This paper presents a novel technique to measure and compare the redistributive capacity of observed tax (or transfer …) policies. The technique is based on income distribution simulations and controls for differences in pre-tax income … distributions. It assumes that the only information on the pre-tax distribution available in each country-year is the Gini …

In this paper we provide short- and long-run tax buoyancy estimates for 107 countries (distributed between advanced … that: i) for advanced economies both long-run and short-run buoyancies are not different from one; ii) long run tax …

We investigate the relation between changes in tax composition and long-run economic growth using a new dataset … 20 years of observations on total tax revenue during the period 1970-2009-21 high-income, 23 middle-income and 25 low …-income countries. To our knowledge this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dataset on tax composition and growth. We find that …

-up scenarios, analyzing how improving the efficiency of capital spending and of tax revenue collection affect growth and debt …