This paper makes a quantitative assessment of possible reforms to the Chilean tax system. The simulations are based on … scenario is considered a cut effective rate of value added tax and an increase in the richest quintile's effective rate of … income tax by 20% or 40% respectively. The results of the model are transferred to micro data to analyze the effects …

I assess the macroeconomic and redistributive effects of tax reforms aimed at increasing tax revenue in Spain. To this … involves doubling the average effective tax rate on labor and business income for all individuals whose income is above a … threshold level. I find that this reform reduces the inequality in after-tax income, wealth, and consumption. However, it …

redistribution. The main tool for redistribution in the German tax system is the progressive income tax. The most important source of … funding for the church, the church tax, is directly linked to income. However, for top earners an alternative tax scale … applies. In most federal states the church tax is limited to a certain percentage of taxable income, a provision known as …