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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 …
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Tax revenues at 20% of GDP remain low compared to other Latin American countries and the OECD average and tax evasion … than households. Therefore, Colombia needs a comprehensive tax reform that boosts revenues and shifts the tax burden to … support more inclusive and green growth. Tax loopholes and exemptions that reduce the tax base and favour mainly the rich …
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Reforms over the past two decades have produced a well-balanced, modern tax system. However, considerable revenues will … of total tax revenue but are levied on small tax bases, partly reflecting the distribution of income. A revenue source … less detrimental to growth is consumption taxes, which are mostly raised by the relatively broad value-added tax …
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poverty. The tax-to-GDP ratio is low relative to other emerging market economies. The difficulty is to raise revenues without … denting growth or worsening inequality. Successive reforms have modernised the tax administration and increased the number of … taxpayers. Nonetheless, raising compliance is an ongoing challenge and investing in the tax administration rightly remains a …
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driving forces of changes in estimated structural government revenue, including the impact of changes to tax legislation …, fiscal drag (caused e.g. by the non-indexation of income tax brackets), the composition of economic growth, and a residual … ratio increased substantially even though the estimated impact of changes to tax legislation was close to zero. In most …
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The sharp rise in debt experienced by most OECD countries raises questions about the prudent debt level countries should target. It also raises questions about the fiscal frameworks needed to reach them and to accommodate cyclical fluctuations along the path towards a prudent debt target. The...
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This paper attempts to gauge the effects of various fiscal and monetary policy rules on macroeconomic outcomes in the euro area. It consists of two major parts – a historical assessment and an assessment based on an extended scenario until 2030 – and it builds on the ECB-BASE –a...
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results are robust across a range of econometric specifications and labour tax indicators. - Debt ; labour taxes ; fiscal …
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. Simulation results show that government defcits, high debt level and slow fiscal adjustment adversely affect price stability in …
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The aim of this paper is twofold. First, for West Germany, France, Italy and US, we econometrically select within a SVAR model some fiscal policy regimes, i.e. a u0094set of rulesu0094 for the implementation of fiscal policies. Second, we identify the fiscal policy shocks related to different...
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