Tax Expenditures in the Balkans: Time to Open the Black Box
Flurim Aliu | 28 October 2021
Blog,
Fiscal | Tags:
Tax Expenditures,
Tax Reform The traditional way of thinking about government expenditure goes as follows: first, governments collect revenue (through taxes, borrowing, or other means such as fines and penalties) and then they spend that revenue through the budget process. However, governments can also choose to support different economic
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Tax Expenditures and Domestic Revenue Mobilisation
9-11 November 2021 | Online Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Domestic Revenue Mobilization,
Informality,
Tax Expenditures,
Tax Reform Tax expenditures (TEs) are tax benefits that governments use worldwide to pursue various policy goals such as attracting investment, boosting innovation and fighting poverty. TEs are costly, as they lower government revenue and the tax liability of the beneficiary. The global average of tax revenues
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Press Release: New Global Tax Expenditures Database by CEP and DIE: Shedding Light on Hidden Government Spending
Council on Economic Policies | 16 June 2021
Press Releases | Tags:
Tax Expenditures,
Tax Incentives,
Tax Reform The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) today launch the Global Tax Expenditures Database (GTED). The database went live today at www.GTED.net and will be officially launched at 15.00 CEST with an online conference featuring
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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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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 The panel addressed 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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