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 analyses income inequality in Ireland using a new panel dataset based on the administrative tax records of … deterioration of the labour market. The data confirms that the tax system is highly progressive at the high end of income … function in the tax and benefit system was enhanced during the last decade, not only because more income support was …

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 review examines ways forward for policy on several fronts: indirect taxation; household income tax and social benefits …Ensuring tax and transfer systems bring sufficient revenue to reach macroeconomic fiscal targets, address societal … goals in re-distribution and social welfare, recognise the influence taxation has on businesses’ competitiveness and …

. First, it argues that Chile needs to increase income redistribution through its tax and transfer system towards levels …

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 …

Estonia. It makes use of microsimulation modelling approach and applies the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD to quantify the first …The paper studies the impact of tax-benefit policies on the distribution of household incomes and work incentives in … social benefits. According to the simulations, 2016-2017 policies increased household incomes relative to inflation and were …

maintains progressive personal income tax rates, gradually withdraws low-income support and provides additional benefits for low …This paper assesses Italy’s 2019 tax and benefit reforms, analyses hypothetical reforms and proposes a reform package … that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and …