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progressivity on tax morale is declining in income. In our empirical analysis, we make use of a unique dataset of tax progressivity …
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We apply the Kakwani approach to decomposing redistributive effect into average rate, progressivity, and reranking … effects of direct and indirect taxes are mostly associated with changes in progressivity. For in-kind benefits, changes in the … average benefit rate and progressivity each played the major roles at different times. …
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progressivity on tax morale is declining in income. In our empirical analysis, we make use of a unique dataset of tax progressivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764579
progressivity and complexity of national tax systems. We show that frequent alterations of tax structures have reduced tax rates at … higher levels of income and diminished the overall progressivity and complexity of national tax systems; however, the degree …
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progressivity and complexity of national tax systems. We show that frequent alterations of tax structures have reduced tax rates at … higher levels of income and diminished the overall progressivity and complexity of national tax systems; however, the degree …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004580
Men have fallen behind women in education in developed countries. Why? I study the impact of a transitory increase in the opportunity cost of schooling on men's and women's educational attainment. I exploit a reform in Iceland that lowered income taxes to zero for one year and compare teenagers...
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Recent research on the behavioral effects of income taxes has to a large extent focused on the elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate, i.e., one minus the marginal tax rate. We offer new evidence on this matter by making use of a large panel of Swedish tax payers over...
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The elasticities of taxable and broad income are key parameters in tax policy analysis. To examine the large variation in estimates found in the literature, I conduct a comprehensive meta-regression analysis using information from 51 studies containing 1,448 estimates. Heterogeneity in reported...
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wage growth and progressivity of the tax system determined the fiscal leeway which governments could use to reduce income …, their much lower degree of progressivity implied limited additional scope for fiscal changes. While decisions taken in most … of the examined countries in the CEE region led to increases in tax progressivity, their income tax systems continue to …
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We decompose the redistributive effect of direct taxes into vertical, horizontal, and reranking components applying the methods of Urban and Lambert (Public Finance Review, 2008). In the first such application to the UK, and using yearly data covering 1977–2020, we find that redistributive...
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