En enero de 2002 entró en vigor en España el nuevo Impuesto sobre las Ventas Minoristas de Determinados Hidrocarburos. Este impuesto, cuya recaudación está cedida a la Comunidades Autónomas, se destinará fundamentalmente a la financiación de gastos de naturaleza sanitaria. El objetivo del...

. En este trabajo se simulan los efectos de la reforma del IRPF que entró en vigor en enero de 2003. El análisis se realiza teniendo en cuenta el impacto de la reforma sobre la oferta laboral. Los resultados indican la existencia de un coste recaudatorio global del 14,93%, de los cuales 2,26...

. La reforma del Impuesto de la Renta de las Personas Físicas (Ley 40/1998) ha venido acompañada de un mecanismo de compensación destinado a cubrir la posible pérdida de incentivos por adquisición de vivienda habitual. Para ello, se ha definido el “incentivo teórico” que habría...

The aim of this paper is to compare, at an international level, the average tax liabilities on the use of labour as a production factor among a bunch of OECD country members. The methodology is that of marginal effective tax rates. Results on Great Britain, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy,...

The aim of this chapter is to explain the most significant events during the lifetime of the personal income tax (PIT) which, since its introduction, has become the form of taxation most widely known by Spanish taxpayers. We will therefore describe its historical origins, analyze its...

This paper offers a quantitative analysis of housing supply and demand in Spain. To this end, it formulates a model in line with the traditional models of the literature. Using Spanish data for the period 1975 to 2009, reduced form and structural models are estimated. The results obtained show...

This paper shows the utility of the elasticity of reported income to assess tax reforms in detail from the perspectives of tax revenue and well-being. We provide evidence of the value of the elasticity of reported income in Spain given the variations in marginal rates of the Personal Income Tax....

There are studies that suggests that the use of environmental taxes to promote the consumption of 'clean goods' could have unwanted effects in that it leads to the consumption of 'dirty goods'. The results will depend on the multiple effects of cross-price elasticities. This paper illustrates...