Global Tax Expenditures Database – Official Launch
16 June 2021, 15.00-17.30 CET | Online Conferences,
Fiscal | Tags:
Inequality,
Sustainability,
Tax Expenditures,
Tax Reform The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) have launched the «Global Tax Expenditures Database» (GTED): www.GTED.net with an online conference on 16 June 2021. The key findings of the GTED Flagship report presented at
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Globalization and Digitalization – Interconnections Between Taxation, Trade and Investment
3, 10, 17, 24 June and 1 July, 2021 14.00-17.00 CET | Online Fiscal,
Trade,
Workshops | Tags:
Digitalization,
Investment,
Services Trade,
Tax Expenditures,
Taxes Recent decades have witnessed structural changes in the way production is organized. Trade and investment liberalization together with technological developments, notably in transport and communications, have substantially reduced trade and foreign investment costs and enabled global value chains, supported by global finance, to proliferate. As
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Tax Incentives for Investment. Old and New Challenges for International Trade
Upcoming: 24 June, 2021 14.00-17.00 CET | Online Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Digitalization,
Investment,
Tax Expenditures,
Tax Incentives Despite their stated goals including attracting FDI, creating employment and boosting R&D and innovation, tax incentives for investment are often ineffective. Indeed, several provisions are redundant and hence end-up triggering costly windfall gains. They can also trigger negative spillover effects on third countries, e.g. when
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Reforming Tax Expenditures – Challenges and Barriers in the United States
14 April, 2021 20.00 CET, 14.00 EDT | Online Fiscal,
Panel | Tags:
Tax Expenditures,
Tax Reform This event will address the main challenges and barriers holding back reform of the tax expenditure system in the US including:
The politics of tax expenditures
“Negative” and “positive” tax expenditures
Collecting racial, ethnic, and gender information
Improving transparency in public finance management.
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Assessing Pension-Related Tax Expenditures in South Africa
Agustin Redonda and
Christopher Axelson | 6 April 2021
Fiscal,
Working Papers | Tags:
Inequality,
Pensions,
Tax Expenditures In 2016, the South African government introduced a comprehensive reform to simplify
and harmonize the pension system in order to incentivize pension savings and increase the fairness
of the retirement system. Using administrative tax micro-data, we assess the impact of the 2016
reform and find that it triggered
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