In 2008, the Czech government implemented a major overhaul of the personal income tax (PIT), replacing the previous progressive rate schedule with a single 15% rate levied on an enlarged base. This was accompanied by significant changes to the corporate income tax (CIT) and an increase in the...

Korea has one of the lowest tax burdens in the OECD area, reflecting its small public sector. However, rapid population ageing will put upward pressure on government spending. The challenge is to meet the long-run need for greater expenditures and tax revenue while sustaining strong economic...

This paper examines various efficiency and equity aspects related to the skill acquisition of young people and older adults. The analysis suggests that such human capital investment is associated with significant labour-market gains for individuals, including higher post-tax earnings and better...

This paper examines the potential role of innovation policy in enhancing long-term productivity growth in Russia. It begins by exploring the role of framework conditions for business in encouraging innovative activities, particularly with respect to intellectual property rights and competition....

The Mexican tax system encompasses a number of commendable features and disincentives to work, save and invest appear less severe than in most other OECD countries. However, the system also contains major deficiencies, which hampers the efficiency and equity of the system and contribute to the...

The Swedish universal welfare model relies on a high tax level to finance a variety of transfers to the workingage population both in the form of income replacements and income supplements and as services for health-, child- and elderly care. The available evidence, reviewed in this <I>Working...</i>

Cet article est consacré à l'évaluation de l'impact de deux réformes de la fiscalité indirecte française : l'application d'une taxe sur le baril de pétrole visant à réduire les émissions de dioxyde de carbone et une harmonisation de la TVA proche des recommandations initiales de la...

Cet article est consacré à l'évaluation de l'impact de deux réformes de la fiscalité indirecte française : l'application d'une taxe sur le baril de pétrole visant à réduire les émissions de dioxyde de carbone et une harmonisation de la TVA proche des recommandations initiales de la...

Le schéma proposé vise à instaurer un double marché : garanti avec une maîtrise de la production (là où un marché libre serait particulièrement instable) correspondant aux débouchés internes à l'Union européenne ; non garanti pour les débouchés sur le marché mondial (les...

Depuis sa réforme en 1998, le Mouvement des entreprises de France (Medef) apparaît comme une association puissante et unifiée. En étudiant l’action collective patronale en France, cet article met en doute cette impression. Contrairement aux apparences, l’organisation centrale du patronat...