This paper investigates the factors that shape governments’ capacity to collect revenue. To do so, it analyses how tax … revenue responds to tax rates using evidence from a panel of 34 OECD countries over 1978-2014. The estimations show that the … response of revenue to rates weakens as rates become higher, confirming the existence of a hump-shaped relationship between tax …

This paper examines the relationship between tax structures and economic growth by entering indicators of the tax … growth than taxes on consumption and property. More precisely, the findings allow the establishment of a ranking of tax …-oriented tax reform would be to shift part of the revenue base towards recurrent property and consumption taxes and away from …

the earlier 2005 study using the most recent datasets and tax codes, the coverage being confined in this paper to 35 …, except for the elasticities of corporate income tax revenue which are revised up in most cases. …

revenues related to tax-favoured retirement saving regimes in 17 OECD countries, taking into account current and future … main results show that in the case where tax incentives are assumed to lead essentially to saving diversion rather than … creation, the net budgetary cost of tax-favoured schemes would remain large, despite the sharp rise in revenues collected from …

This paper produces a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution to the working-age population, covering OECD … countries over the last two decades. Redistribution is quantified as the relative reduction in market income inequality achieved … data. A detailed decomposition analysis uncovers the respective roles of size, tax progressivity and transfer targeting for …

This paper provides an empirical investigation on the drivers of tax and transfer income redistribution to working … technological change. The baseline model is augmented with major direct policy drivers of income redistribution covering tax revenue … contributed to the decline in income redistribution include a flattening of the tax schedule in the upper-part of the wage …

This paper provides, for all OECD countries, an estimate of the net tax cost per currency unit of contribution to a tax … year. The net tax cost is first calculated for nine (five-year) age groups, which have different relative income levels and …-specific features of savings taxation, the paper also provides an overview of the tax treatment of private pension arrangements and …

Tax reform is an urgent priority, as Japan needs as much as 5% to 6% of GDP of additional government revenue just to … stabilise public debt, which has risen to 180% of GDP. In addition to raising revenue, tax reform should promote economic growth …, address the deterioration in income distribution and improve the local tax system. Additional revenue should be obtained …