of direct and indirect taxes etc. The paper also makes use of a revenue performance index, and finds that while several …

assumptions indicate that increasing household direct taxes would reduce income inequality, while cutting transfers by the same …. In particular, relatively little weight has been given to reducing tax expenditures and raising taxes on immovable … certain tax expenditures, hiking taxes on immovable property and broadly-based consumption taxes. Increases in capital income …

Taxes and transfers reduce inequality in disposable income relative to market income. The effect varies, however …, across OECD countries. The redistributive impact of taxes and transfers depends on the size, mix and the progressivity of … redistributive impact as countries characterised by much higher taxes and transfers (e.g. Germany) because they rely more on income …

a unity is misleading. The (after direct taxes and transfers) Gini, for example, declines by over 10 percent in … Bolivia but they are on opposite sides in terms of the extent of redistribution.Fourth, due to indirect taxes households are …, lower and less progressive transfers have been identified as the main cause. Existing studies show that, while in Europe the …

a unity is misleading. The (after direct taxes and transfers) Gini, for example, declines by over 10 percent in … Bolivia but they are on opposite sides in terms of the extent of redistribution. Fourth, due to indirect taxes households are … – lower and less progressive transfers have been identified as the main cause. Existing studies show that, while in Europe the …

The paper presents evidence of an upward ratchet in transfers and taxes in the U.S. around World-War II. This finding … in the population who interacts with a (richer) agenda setter in Congress in setting redistribution. While the setter … managed to cap redistribution in the pre-war period, the War itself pushed up the status-quo tax burden, raising the …

The Swedish universal welfare model relies on a high tax level to finance a variety of transfers to the workingage … properties. However, the efficiency costs of the system are substantial. Taxes and benefits combine to face income earners with … système a des propriétés de redistribution très importantes qui sont mises clairement en évidence dans ce <I>Document de …

national transfers as a means of absorbing risk, while the evidence of a structural break due to the tax reform itself is less …

in the progressivity of taxes and transfers (pending). Our model is able to capture key features of Mexican labor markets … countries. In this paper we study the interaction between the tax and transfers system and the size and composition of informal … distribution of the transfers between formal and informal sector workers, changes in the size of the transfer system, and changes …