to achieve convergence of policy outcomes to OECD upper standards is challenging. Efficiency gains in the tax system … could bring additional revenues. The tax base should be expanded by reducing informality, strengthening tax administration … unemployment and income inequality, the tax-benefit system should also be revised as it is now relatively regressive and the tax …

. Raising the effectiveness of tax collection, reforming the tax structure towards less distortive taxes and making more out of …

, particularly the value-added tax, account for the largest increases in poverty. This effect is somewhat compensated by direct …