Revenue-productive Income Tax Structures and Tax Reforms in Emerging Market Economies
Author | : Fareed M. A. Hassan |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Finance, Public |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Fareed M. A. Hassan |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Finance, Public |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Fareed M. A. Hassan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Any consideration of alternative tax systems must consider underlying levels and distributions of income. But broader, simpler tax bases would facilitate administration, increase revenues, and reduce opportunities and incentives for tax evasion.Using a household budget survey for 1992, Hassan shows the poor revenue performance and distributional impact of Bulgaria's personal income tax system. He explores the implications for revenue and income distribution of two alternative tax systems-a flat tax and a progressive but simpler three-brackets tax system.He demonstrates that simpler tax structures with lower tax rates could achieve at least equal revenue and distributional objectives and are superior in terms of efficiency and equity. (The findings are robust when Bulgaria's significant tax evasion is included.)But tax changes since 1992 have, if anything, moved Bulgaria even further from a simple income tax system: the number of rates and brackets increased from 7 to 10, and the levels of exemption remain unchanged. (Complex, higher rates complicate administration and enforcement and provide incentives for tax evasion. And in the alternative systems Hassan explores, the poor are protected with higher exemptions.)Fortunately, the country's personal income tax structure began to move toward less nominal progressivity after Bulgaria?s 1997 tax reform program. The tax rate in the top income bracket was reduced from 52 percent to 40 percent, the number of tax brackets was halved, and the exemption level was increased 20 percent (reducing tax burdens on the poor).This paper-a product of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector, Europe and Central Asia Region-is part of a larger effort in the region to analyze the social and revenue dimensions of tax reforms in transition economies. The author may be contacted at [email protected].
Author | : Ms. Dora Benedek |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2022-01-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Personal Income Tax (PIT) is one of the key sources of revenues in Advanced Economies (AEs) but plays a much more limited role in Low-Income Developing Countries (LIDCs) and Emerging Market Economies (EMEs), both in terms of revenue and redistributive impact. Notwithstanding, this paper shows that LIDCs and EMEs increased their PIT-to-GDP revenue by 110 and 48 percent, respectively, during the 1990-2019 period, a marked improvement in the PIT revenue performance. We find that this rise was driven primarily by economic developments and to a lesser extent by changes in the design of PIT systems. We also find that LIDCs that improved their tax-to-GDP ratios relied on a broader set of tax instruments and not exclusively on the PIT, suggesting that a successful revenue mobilization strategy of developing countries requires a comprehensive approach covering a wider range of taxes. Finally, using a newly assembled dataset of PIT characteristics of 157 countries over the 2006-2018 period, we estimate a novel redistribution index of the PIT in LIDCs. We show that the contribution of the PIT to inequality reductions has been significant.
Author | : John Toye |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2023-06-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1000946568 |
First published in 1978. The tax system is one of the instruments said to be available to translate development policy objectives into practice. The wide-ranging papers collected together in this volume, first published in 1978, explore different aspects of the link between national development objectives and the tax system. Attention is particularly focused on traditional aims such as growth, fair distribution and economic stabilisation and development. Articles written by distinguished experts in the fields of public finance and economic development clarify the concepts of taxable capacity and tax effort, and examine the connections between growth and changes within the tax system.
Author | : Malcolm Gillis |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780822308980 |
This volume presents the work of experts on the tax reform in several developing countries, from the restructuring of the economy of post-war Japan to the 1986 reforms in Jamaica. This study is based on the conference convened by the Center for International Development Research of the Institute of Policy Sciences at Duke University in April 1988.
Author | : Iris Claus |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1849804990 |
This book brings together research from some of the world s leading tax economists to discuss appropriate directions for tax reform in small open economies. The eminent contributors (including Altshuler, Creedy, Freebairn, Gravelle, Heady, Kalb, Sørensen and Zodrow) investigate the beneficial directions for medium-term tax reform in the light of global developments and lessons from the latest taxation research. In addressing this issue, they review recent advances in both the theoretical and empirical tax literature and reform evidence from individual countries. Topics covered include the impact of taxes on economic performance; international and corporate taxation; personal tax and welfare systems; environmental taxation; and country-specific tax reform experiences. Bringing together leading international experts to explore specific policy reforms, this book will prove essential reading for academics and researchers of public economics, fiscal policy and tax reform. It will also be warmly welcomed both by undergraduate and graduate students of public economics or the economics of taxation, as well as policymakers and government officials working in the area of tax policy.
Author | : Richard Miller Bird |
Publisher | : Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Selection of studies relating to taxation in developing countries. The papers are organized under the following subjects: approaches to development taxation, lessons from experience, taxation and incentives, problems in direct taxation, the reform of indirect taxation, the role of local taxes, tax administration and tax policy. Contributors: Carl S. Shoup, Vito Tanzi, Richard Goode, Charles E. McLure, Richard Bird, Oliver Oldman, Sijbren Cnossen and many others.
Author | : Mr.Bernardin Akitoby |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 2018-11-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1484382714 |
How do countries mobilize large tax revenue—defined as an average increase in the tax-to-GDP ratio of 0.5 percent per year over three years or more? To answer this question, we build a novel dataset covering 55 episodes of large tax revenue mobilization in low-income countries and emerging markets. We find that: (i) reforms of indirect taxes and exemptions are the most common tax policy measures; (ii) multi-pronged tax administration reforms often go hand in hand with tax policy measures or are stand alone; and (iii) sustainability of the episodes hinges on tax administration reforms in the key compliance areas (risk-based audits, registration, filing, payment, and reporting).
Author | : James Alm |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2005-11-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780387299129 |
This book presents 15 original papers and commentaries by a distinguished group of tax policy and tax administration experts. Using international examples, they highlight the state of knowledge of tax reform, present new thinking about the issue, and analyze useful policy options. The book’s general goal is to examine the current and emerging challenges facing tax reformers and to assess possible directions future reforms are likely to take. More specific themes include distributional issues, how to tax capital income, how to design specific taxes (e.g., the income tax, the value-added tax, the property tax), how to consider the politics and administrative aspects of tax reform, and how to combine the separate insights into comprehensive tax reform.
Author | : Ehtisham Ahmad |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1991-07-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521397421 |
Study on tax reform from basic economic principles with emphasis to guidelines for a practical tax reform for Pakistan.