Consumption Tax Trends 2020 VAT/GST and Excise Rates, Trends and Policy Issues

Consumption Tax Trends 2020 VAT/GST and Excise Rates, Trends and Policy Issues
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2020-12-03
Genre:
ISBN: 926446591X

Consumption Tax Trends provides information on Value Added Taxes/Goods and Services Taxes (VAT/GST) and excise duty rates in OECD member countries. It also contains information about international aspects of VAT/GST developments and the efficiency of this tax. It describes a range of other consumption taxation provisions on tobacco, alcoholic beverages, motor vehicles and aviation fuels.

Consumption Tax Trends

Consumption Tax Trends
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

General consumption taxes now account for nearly 20% of tax revenues of OECD countries. Only USA and Australia of OECD countries do not have a general consumption tax.

Taxing Wages 2021

Taxing Wages 2021
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 651
Release: 2021-04-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9264438181

This annual publication provides details of taxes paid on wages in OECD countries. It covers personal income taxes and social security contributions paid by employees, social security contributions and payroll taxes paid by employers, and cash benefits received by workers. Taxing Wages 2021 includes a special feature entitled: “Impact of COVID-19 on the Tax Wedge in OECD Countries”.

Progressive Consumption Taxation

Progressive Consumption Taxation
Author: Robert Carroll
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0844743941

The authors observe that consumption taxation is superior to income taxation because it does not penalize saving and investment and propose that the U.S. income tax system be completely replaced by a progressive consumption tax. They argue that the X tax, developed by the late David Bradford, offers the best form of progressive consumption taxation for the United States and outline concrete proposals for the X tax's treatment of numerous specific economic issues.

The Value Added Tax and Growth: Design Matters

The Value Added Tax and Growth: Design Matters
Author: Mr.Santiago Acosta Ormaechea
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 149831418X

Does the design of a tax matter for growth? Assembling a novel dataset for 30 OECD countries over the 1970-2016 period, this paper examines whether the value added tax (VAT) may have different effects on long-run growth depending on whether it is raised through the standard rate or through C-efficiency (a measure of the departure of the VAT from a perfectly enforced tax levied at a single rate on all consumption). Our key findings are twofold. First, for a given total tax revenue, a rise in the VAT, financed by a fall in income taxes, promotes growth only when the VAT is raised through C-efficiency. Second, for a given VAT revenue, a rise in Cefficiency, offset by a fall in the standard rate, also promotes growth. The implication is thus that in OECD countries broadening the VAT base through fewer reduced rates and exemptions is more conducive to higher long-run growth than a rise in the standard rate.

International VAT/GST Guidelines

International VAT/GST Guidelines
Author: OECD
Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Intangible property
ISBN: 9789264272040

This paper set forth internationally agreed principles and standards for the value added tax (VAT) treatment of the most common types of international transactions, with a particular focus on trade in services and intangibles. Its aim is to minimise inconsistencies in the application of VAT in a cross-border context with a view to reducing uncertainty and risks of double taxation and unintended non-taxation in international trade. It also includes the recommended principles and mechanisms to address the challenges for the collection of VAT on crossborder sales of digital products that had been identified in the context of the OECD/G20 Project on Base and Erosion and Profit Shifting (the BEPS Project).

Building Tax Culture, Compliance and Citizenship A Global Source Book on Taxpayer Education, Second Edition

Building Tax Culture, Compliance and Citizenship A Global Source Book on Taxpayer Education, Second Edition
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2021-11-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9264724788

Widespread voluntary tax compliance plays a significant role in countries’ efforts to raise the revenues necessary to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. As part of this process, governments are increasingly reaching out to taxpayers – current and future – to teach, communicate and assist them in order to foster a “culture of compliance” based on rights and responsibilities, in which citizens see paying taxes as an integral aspect of their relationship with their government.