Governments Should Use Tax Systems to Drive Inclusive Growth Agenda
David Bradbury and
Bert Brys | 22 July 2016
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Inequality,
Tax Expenditures,
Taxes
Tax policy design should play a key role in not only supporting growth but also in addressing distributional concerns. Taxes affect inequality through different channels. The most direct way in which taxes redistribute income is by narrowing the distribution of (post-tax) disposable income. Taxes can
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Are Tax Expenditures a Good Way to Redistribute?
Silvia Avram | 1 July 2016
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Inequality,
Tax Expenditures,
Taxes
Since 2007, governments across several European countries have implemented cuts to their social programs in an attempt to tackle the fiscal deficits generated by the last economic and financial crisis. At the same time, they have increasingly made use of various tax related measures to
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Energy Subsidies – Widespread, Significant, and Largely Not Reaching the Poor
Fernando Navajas | 18 April 2016
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Energy,
Inequality,
Subsidies
Energy subsidies are widespread and significant. In 2014, according to the IEA (2015), government support for global fossil fuel consumption amounted to 490 billion US$. An IMF working paper (Coady et al., 2015) reports even higher numbers. Distinguishing between subsidies before (pre) and after (post)
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Corporate Taxation, BEPS and the Swiss Corporate Tax Reform III
31 May 2016
Fiscal,
Roundtables | Tags:
Corporate Taxes
Roundtable – co-organized with Avenir Suisse – on corporate taxation, BEPS and the Swiss Corporate Tax Reform III with David Bradbury, Head, Tax Policy and Statistics Division, OECD.
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Multinational tax avoidance in developing countries
Niels Johannesen,
Thomas Tørsløv and
Ludvig Wier | 7 April 2016
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Corporate Taxes,
Development,
Tax Avoidance
In recent years many global firms—including Starbucks, Google, and Amazon—have come under fire for avoiding paying taxes in one country by shifting their profits to a country with lower tax rates.
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