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 …

Ravn (2013), we show that inferences cannot be made about the effects of tax changes on output, labor, or investment. …

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 studies how investment tax incentives stimulate output in an estimated medium-scale dynamic stochastic … general equilibrium model. We find that the horizon following a positive shock to investment tax incentives is crucial. The …

This paper studies how investment tax incentives stimulate output in a medium-scale DSGE model, which allows for a … variety of fiscal financing mechanisms. We find that the horizon following a positive shock in investment tax incentives is … analysis also contributes to the time-to-build profile of the fiscal multiplier. The results suggest that investment tax …

For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from … simulations in a formal framework based on the Shapley value decomposition and quantify the relative roles of (i) tax … policy changes. -- Tax-benefit policy ; Inequality ; Poverty ; Shapley value decomposition ; Labour supply ; Behavioural …

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 …

tax-benefit system: the size and distribution of taxes collected and benefits paid, and the impact of the system on …The purpose of this paper is to introduce applications of RUSMOD - a microsimulation model for fiscal incidence … different population groups. Microsimulation models, such as RUSMOD, are habitually used in developed countries, and can be …