redistributive effects and progressivity of personal income taxes is differentiated among countries. On the one hand, it reduces the … progressivity of personal income tax in Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia; on the other hand, it improves … progressivity in Mozambique. However, it decreases the redistributive effect of personal income tax only in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and …

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 …