Fiscal Policy Responses to the Coronavirus Outbreak
Agustin Redonda | 20 March 2020
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Covid-19,
Inequality,
Informality,
Tax Expenditures,
VAT
The global crisis we are facing is one of the worst in history. The priority, obviously, is to reduce the number of coronavirus victims. At the same time, mitigating the economic impacts is vital.
Both the real economy and financial markets worldwide have already been hard
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Central Banks and Climate Change
Alexander Barkawi | 21 February 2020
Monetary,
Blog | Tags:
Central Banks,
Climate Change,
Credit Risk,
Governing Finance
Central banks must supplement their risk processes to reflect climate risks. This is neither a conflict of objectives nor an overburdening of their mandate, but a fiduciary duty.
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A European Anti–Money Laundering Supervisor: From Vision to Legislation
Nicolas Véron and
Joshua Kirschenbaum | 10 February 2020
Monetary,
Blog | Tags:
AML,
Financial Supervision,
Governing Finance
The European Union is moving toward implementing a policy to strengthen anti–money laundering (AML) supervision across its Single Market, namely enforcing requirements on banks and other firms to ensure they do not facilitate transactions involving proceeds from illegal activities. The European Commission, in charge of
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A Lack Of Transparency. Do You Know About The Taxes Your Government Does NOT Collect?
Christian von Haldenwang and
Agustin Redonda | 20 January 2020
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Tax Expenditures
All over the planet, governments are desperate for funds to finance social policies, public infrastructure and development projects. Yet, the very same governments routinely forego huge amounts of tax revenues by granting tax incentives to investors, setting lower value added tax rates for the consumption
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Tax Expenditures and Complexity in a VAT System: The Case of Brazil
Ivan Ozai | 7 January 2020
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Tax Expenditures,
VAT
Despite its known regressivity, the value-added tax (VAT) has been considered a robust tool for development, especially if integrated into a well-implemented tax-and-benefit system. VAT is often considered a neutral tax that minimizes distortions and is particularly relevant to low- and middle-income countries due to
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Housing Taxation in Europe
Salvador Barrios,
Viginta Ivaškaitė-Tamošiūnė,
Estefanía Vázquez Torres,
Cécile Denis and
Andriana Reut | 18 December 2019
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Housing,
Tax Expenditures
Tax incentives favouring homeownership are widely used in developed economies. Homeownership is often thought to bring a number of positive contributions, from the promotion of households´ saving to enhanced community engagement. However, housing tax incentives are also considered as a major source of distortions for
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What the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Means for Tax Expenditures
Eric Toder | 20 June 2019
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Income Tax,
Inequality,
Tax Expenditures
In a new paper, my former Tax Policy Center colleague Daniel Berger and I calculate that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) modestly reduced the cost of tax expenditures in the individual income tax and made them slightly less regressive. We estimate that
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The Low-Skill Losers
Karen Petrou | 30 April 2019
Monetary,
Blog | Tags:
Employment,
Federal Reserve,
Inequality,
QE
The Fed is devoting increasing analytical – if not yet policy-maker – attention to the unequalizing impact of unconventional policy. It’s a start – a major problem besetting central banks in countries without a robust middle class – i.e., the U.S. – is that
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Fiscal Transparency: The Case of Tax Expenditures in Developing Countries
Mario Mansour | 11 April 2019
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Tax Expenditures
In recent years, more developing countries have started reporting on their tax expenditures, however the quality of reporting needs to improve if it is to usefully contribute to fiscal transparency and the debate on domestic revenue mobilization.
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Civil Society Groups Across Latin America Are Starting to Question Tax Expenditures
Paolo de Renzio and
Alexandre Ciconello | 21 March 2019
Fiscal,
Blog | Tags:
Tax Expenditures
How governments raise the revenues they need to support public spending is a fundamental aspect of public finance. Despite this, taxation has been the focus of limited analysis and action by civil society groups around the world, especially in developing countries. But in recent years,
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