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All Direct and Indirect taxes accompanied by tax laws, accounting, auditing and tax returns, can be abolished if a new tax system called “TOP Tax system” is adopted and implemented by all nations. TOP Tax system will relieve 7 billion people of the world from the cobweb of ambiguous and...

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Income tax policy in Europe between two crises : from the great recession to the COVID-19 pandemic

Myck, Michał; Trzcińsk, Kajetan - 2022

wage growth and progressivity of the tax system determined the fiscal leeway which governments could use to reduce income …, their much lower degree of progressivity implied limited additional scope for fiscal changes. While decisions taken in most … of the examined countries in the CEE region led to increases in tax progressivity, their income tax systems continue to …

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Integrating Microsimulation Models of Tax Policy into a DGE Macroeconomic Model

DeBacker, Jason Matthew - 2018

This paper proposes a method for integrating individual effective tax rates and marginal tax rates computed from a microsimulation (partial equilibrium) model of tax policy with a dynamic general equilibrium (DGE) model of tax policy that can provide macroeconomic analysis or dynamic scores of...

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Electoral Cycles in Tax Reforms

David, Antonio C.; Sever, Can - 2022

We examine electoral cycles in tax reforms using monthly data over the period of 1990-2018 for 22 advanced economies and emerging markets. We show that governments tend to avoid announcing tax reforms during the months running up to elections. In addition, they become more likely to announce...

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The Concept of Income and Tax Policy

Richardson, Ivor - 2015

This paper describes the relevance to lawyers and law students of the concept of income for tax purposes and tax policy. Three reasons are given for law practitioners to have an understanding of the policies underlying tax legislation: the complexity of the legislation; the fact that it can...

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Proxy SVARs : asymptotic theory, bootstrap inference, and the effects of income tax changes in the United States

Jentsch, Carsten; Lunsford, Kurt G. - 2016

Proxy structural vector autoregressions (SVARs)identify structural shocks in vector autoregressions (VARs) with external proxy variables that are correlated with the structural shocks of interest but uncorrelated with other structural shocks. We provide asymptotic theory for proxy SVARs when the...

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Macroeconomic and distributive effects of increasing taxes in Spain

Fuster, Luisa - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 13 (2022) 4, pp. 613-648

I assess the macroeconomic and redistributive effects of tax reforms aimed at increasing tax revenue in Spain. To this end, I develop a theory of entrepreneurship that mimics key facts on the wealth and income distribution in Spain. I find two reforms that raise fiscal pressure in Spain to the...

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Modeling Distortionary Taxation

Chronis, Panagiotis - 2023

There has been a lot of discussion recently regarding the macroeconomic consequences of a distortionary taxation system. However the way this distortionary taxation scheme or instrument is modeled in macroeconomic analysis, as well as the ability of these models to capture the effects implied by...

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On the Political Economics of Tax Reforms

Castanheira, Micael - 2011

There is often a gap between the prescriptions of an 'optimal' tax system and actual tax systems, some of which can be neither efficient economically nor efficient at redistributing income. With a focus on personal income taxes, this paper reviews the political economics literature on tax...

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How the Rich Respond to Anticipated Tax Increases : Evidence from the 1993 Tax Act

Auten, Gerald - 2016

We examine the responses of high-income taxpayers to the increases in the top income tax rates under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993. We use a large panel of tax returns spanning 1987 to 1996 to estimate the elasticity of taxable income using a difference-in-differences approach....

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