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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …