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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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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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a way that minimises deadweight costs and distortions weighing on growth and employment. Reducing further the tax wedge …
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the experience of 34 OECD countries over 1980-2014 to assess the effects of changes in the tax structure on the long … while keeping government size constant typically lift long-term output per capita when they involve cuts in the labour tax …-income effects of revenue-neutral reductions in labour tax wedges are broadly in line with intuition: the relative position of those …
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There is no single “best” indicator for analysing general government debt. This paper examines the various issues in defining and measuring debt, and explores other data which could be useful, both within and beyond the general government debt concept, to better track and analyse fiscal...
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The recent euro area sovereign debt crisis has shown the importance of market reactions for the sustainability of debt. The objective of this paper is to calculate endogenous government debt limits given the markets assessment of the probability to default. The estimated primary balance reaction...
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Fiscal constitutions comprise the set of rules and frameworks guiding fiscal policy that are enshrined in a country’s fundamental laws. This paper compares the fiscal constitutions of 15 federal countries by empirically assessing five building blocks: 1) the power of sub-national governments...
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Since 1995 when OECD began conducting Economic Surveys of the Russian Federation many policy recommendations relating to structural reform and framework conditions have been made. This paper is an update of an earlier paper that described actions taken up to October 2011 (Vaziakova et al.,...
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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 …
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As its workforce ages and major economies shift towards producing higher value-added goods and services, New Zealand will face increasing challenges to remain globally competitive and maintain high living standards. Future growth will need to come increasingly from productivity gains, and...
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