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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Reforming Tax Expenditures – Focus on Europe
11, 18 and 25 February, 2021 | Online Fiscal,
Roundtables | Tags:
Consumption Tax,
Corporate Tax,
Personal Income Tax,
Tax Expenditures,
Tax Reform,
Wealth Tax A significant amount of government funding worldwide is channeled through tax breaks, aka “tax expenditures” (TEs), in the form of exemptions, deductions, credits, deferrals, and reduced tax rates.
Despite their magnitude and the fact that their net impact on government budgets is the same as direct
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COVID-19 and Inequality: The Urgent Need for Tax Expenditure Reform
Rita de la Feria and
Agustin Redonda | 24 November 2020
Blog,
Fiscal | Tags:
Covid-19,
Inequality,
Tax Expenditures,
Tax Reform The economic impact of COVID-19 is both unprecedented and far-reaching. There is now little doubt that the pandemic will disproportionally hit the worse-off, hence exacerbating inequality. It is also clear that the pandemic is particularly affecting groups and sectors that were already under significant stress
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