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Trends in top incomes and their taxation in OECD countries
Förster, Michael F.; Llena-Nozal, Ana; Nafilyan, Vahé - 2014
The shares of top income recipients in total pre-tax income have increased in OECD countries in the past three decades, particularly in most of the English-speaking countries but also in some Nordic (from low levels) and Southern European countries. Today, the richest one percent receives...
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Housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution : evidence and stylized facts
Causa, Orsetta; Woloszko, Nicolas; Leite, David - 2019
This paper produces new evidence and stylised facts on housing, wealth accumulation and wealth distribution, relying on an in-depth analysis of micro-based data on household wealth across OECD countries. The analysis addresses several questions: i) How is homeownership and housing tenure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202943
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Improving taxes and transfers in Australia
Hemmings, Philip J.; Tuske, Annamaria - 2015
reduction. This review particularly recommends shifting away from income taxation to indirect taxation, for instance by raising … reform to vehicle-related taxation. This Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of Australia (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-australia.htm). …
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The efficiency and equity of the tax and transfer system in France
Égert, Balázs - 2013
social and family benefits should be simplified to enhance transparency and consistency. Eliminating schemes that let people …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767760
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Improving the fiscal framework to enhance growth in an era of fiscal consolidation in Slovakia
Klein, Caroline; Price, Robert W.; Wörgötter, Andreas - 2013
The challenge for fiscal policy in Slovakia is to achieve fiscal consolidation in a way which supports the fragile recovery and protects spending on areas which are important for re-embarking on a trajectory of high trend growth and underpinning a catch-up in living standards. While the recently...
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Taxing the rent of non-renewable resource sectors : a theoretical note
Daubanes, Julien; Andrade de Sá, Saraly - 2014
This study analyses the economic rent generated by the exploitation of a non-renewable resource, and the taxation of … they are exploited; the analysis emphasizes the effect of resource taxation on the discouragement to the development of new … reserves. We discuss the limitations of neutral profit-taxation schemes and examine the distortions caused by various resource-taxation …
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Should I stay or should I go? : housing and residential mobility across OECD countries
Causa, Orsetta; Pichelmann, Jacob - 2020
This paper delivers new evidence on the individual and policy drivers of residential mobility, covering a wide range of housing-related policies and conditions but also other relevant policy areas. The analysis uses household-level micro datasets allowing for an investigation of the drivers of...
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How can South Africa's tax system meet revenue raising challenges?
Lewis, Christine; Alton, Theresa - 2015
. Revenues from property taxation are currently limited by the inefficient municipal rates system, which does not function well …, consideration should also be given to the appropriate taxation of the natural resources sector, which remains an important issue for …
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Making public finances more growth and equity-friendly in the euro area
Pina, Álvaro Manuel - 2016
Across the euro area, the ability of public finances to support equitable growth has tended to deteriorate. Concerns about high and rising public debt, together with market pressure in some cases, led to sharp fiscal consolidation in 2011-13, against the backdrop of a weak economic situation at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577852
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Malaysia's economic success story and challenges
Koen, Vincent; Asada, Hidekatsu; Nixon, Stewart; … - 2017
Malaysia has sustained over four decades of rapid, inclusive growth, reducing its dependence on agriculture and commodity exports to become a more diversified, modern and open economy. GDP per capita is now higher than in a number of OECD economies, while poverty and income inequality have...
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