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Designing a Presumptive Income Tax Based on Turnover in Countries with Large Informal Sectors
Wei, Feng - 2023
Turnover (sales) is frequently used in developing countries as a presumptive income tax base, to economize on the costs of tax administration and taxpayer compliance. We construct a simple model where a size threshold separates firms paying turnover tax from those paying profit tax (regular...
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Inflation and income inequality : is food inflation different?
Walsh, James P.; Yu, Jiangyan - 2012
There is an extensive literature noting that high inflation can add to income inequality, and a parallel literature … assessing the effect of rising food prices on the poor. This paper attempts to combine these strands by dividing inflation into … food and nonfood inflation and assessing whether food inflation affects income inequality differently from nonfood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618580
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Leveraging Anti-money Laundering Measures to Improve Tax Compliance and Help Mobilize Domestic Revenues
Mathias, Emmanuel - 2023
The paper advocates leveraging anti-money laundering (AML) measures to enhance tax compliance, tackle tax crimes, and, in turn, help mobilize domestic revenues. While AML measures have already been deployed to improve tax compliance, including during the European debt crisis, the benefits that...
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Fiscal foresight and information flows
Leeper, Eric M.; Walker, Todd B.; Yang, Shu-Chun S. - 2012
News - or foresight - about future economic fundamentals can create rational expectations equilibria with non-fundamental representations that pose substantial challenges to econometric efforts to recover the structural shocks to which economic agents react. Using tax policies as a leading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618558
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Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy with Nominal and Indexed Debt
Cosimano, Thomas F.; Gapen, Michael T. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This paper highlights the importance of debt composition in setting optimal fiscal and monetary policy over short-run business cycles and in the long run. Nominal debt as state-contingent debt can be a significant policy tool to reduce the volatility of distortionary government policy, thereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263667
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Central Banks Quasi-Fiscal Policies and Inflation
Park, Seok Gil - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
Although central banks have recently taken unconventional policy actions to try to shore up macroeconomic and financial stability, little theory is available to assess the consequences of such measures. This paper offers a theoretical model with which such policies can be analyzed. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650632
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Sovereign Risk, Fiscal Policy, and Macroeconomic Stability
Kuester, Keith; Mueller, Gernot J.; Corsetti, Giancarlo; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper analyzes the impact of strained government finances on macroeconomic stability and the transmission of fiscal policy. Using a variant of the model by Curdia and Woodford (2009), we study a "sovereign risk channel" through which sovereign default risk raises funding costs in the...
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Taxes and the Price Level; A Further Examination of the PPP Hypothesis
Kleiman, Ephraim - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1993
The effects of taxation on the general price level have traditionally been regarded as reflecting monetary policy, rather than fiscal factors. This view abstracted from the possible endogeneity of monetary expansion with respect to tax hikes, and from the effects which taxation may have on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825768
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DSGE Modeling At the Fund; Applications and Further Developments
Botman, Dennis P. J.; Rose, David; Laxton, Douglas; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
Researchers in policymaking institutions have expended significant effort to develop a new generation of macro models with more rigorous microfoundations. This paper provides a summary of the applications of two of these models. The Global Economy Model is a quarterly model that features a large...
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Fiscal Stimulus to the Rescue? Short-Run Benefits and Potential Long-Run Costs of Fiscal Deficits
Laxton, Douglas; Muir, Dirk; Kumhof, Michael; Mursula, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
This paper uses the IMF's Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal Model to compute shortrun multipliers of fiscal stimulus measures and long-run crowding-out effects of higher debt. Multipliers of two-year stimulus range from 0.2 to 2.2 depending on the fiscal instrument, the extent of monetary...
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