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 …

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 …

), particularly for the low-income and older individuals. Using simulations of tax and social benefits and public pensions, the paper … shows how the current tax, welfare, and pension systems create disincentives to work among these groups. The paper finds … that incentives to retire early are strong for men, especially low-wage earners. The marginal effective tax rates also make …

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 …

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 …

. 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 …