Although economic growth continued to be lukewarm in 2021, tax revenue increased significantly, even exceeding the pre-crisis level despite economic policy measures associated with revenue losses. During the 2008-2011 global financial crisis, tax revenue followed a different path: Its recovery...

What are the salient features of developing Asia's tax revenues and public expenditures? How do these compare with other economies and how have they been affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic? To analyze these issues we assemble data across economies drawing on a range of...

We study the effect of inflowing remittances - a major source of capital for many countries - on tax-revenues and tax-policy. Instrumenting remittances with changes in the oil-price interacted with a country's distance to oil-producing countries, we find that remittances have a large positive...

Von 2010 bis einschließlich 2015 hat sich die gesamte, nicht mittels Tarifanpassungen ausgeglichene Zusatzbelastung der Steuerzahler durch die kalte Progression auf 36,5 Milliarden Euro summiert. Diese versteckten impliziten Steuererhöhungen durch die kalte Progression sind nicht durch die...