Housing Taxation in Europe
Salvador Barrios,
Viginta Ivaškaitė-Tamošiūnė,
Estefanía Vázquez Torres,
Cécile Denis and
Andriana Reut | 18 December 2019
Blog,
Fiscal | 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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Tax Expenditures and Sustainability. An Overview
Agustin Redonda | 11 November 2016
Discussion Notes,
Fiscal | Tags:
Employment,
Energy,
Fossil Fuel Subsidies,
Health,
Housing,
Inequality,
Innovation,
Patent Boxes,
Pensions,
Tax Expenditures,
VAT Fiscal policy has significant effects on a broad sustainability agenda covering long-term economic, social and environmental goals. However, whereas a myriad of actors scrutinize taxation as well as direct government spending with regard to their impact on sustainability, a key feature of fiscal policy has
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Global Finance, Debt and Sustainability
3 October 2016, Zurich, Switzerland Lectures,
Monetary | Tags:
Climate Change,
Debt,
Financial Regulation,
Housing,
Inequality CEP Lecture by Adair Turner co-hosted with the IMF. Lord Turner has been a Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking since 2013, and in 2015 became Chairman of the Institute’s Governing Body.
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