Spanish Abstract: Este documento identifica los hechos estilizados que han caracterizado los sistemas tributarios de América Latina a lo largo de los últimos dos decenios. A pesar de la heterogeneidad entre países, la carga tributaria ha aumentado en casi todos los casos; y la estructura...

Spanish Abstract: El gran incremento de impuestos autonómicos que existe hoy, así como la gran cantidad de resoluciones judiciales del Tribunal Constitucional, de reciente aparición, hace necesario dedicar un estudio al análisis crítico del art. 6 de la LOFCA, especialmente después de la...

English Abstract: Using microdata from the European Union, the United States and Japan, we show that the elderly bear lower effective tax rates than the young. This difference is explained by the income gap and the different generational consumption baskets. However, tax reforms enacted in...

This paper looks for empirical evidence to show if a very interventionist government stimulates or not private investment in Latin America. Using the same model as Caballero-Urdiales y López-Gallardo (2012), we extend their analysis from five Latin-American countries to all Latin America. The...

This paper looks for empirical evidence to show if a very interventionist government stimulates or not private investment in Latin America. Using the same model as Caballero-Urdiales y López-Gallardo (2012), we extend their analysis from five Latin-American countries to all Latin America. The...

La política fiscal es el resultado de un proceso de decisión colectivo. Este proceso está más institucionalizado en las democracias constitucionales donde es clave la competencia electoral entre partidos para definir qué políticas se van a llevar a cabo. Si bien el votante mediano es...

The objective was given to identify which salary scales exist within micro-enterprises (SME's) of the economical sector depending on tourism, through representative sample taking, as well as determining the sector to which the SME's belong that generate greater revenue or, on the contrary, those...

The objective of this analysis is to find the best hierarchical model to forecast the total demand for regular gasoline in Bogotá, Colombia and, therefore, the collection of gasoline surcharges, which is an important tax used to finance road networks and massive transportation systems. We used...