Governments Should Use Tax Systems to Drive Inclusive Growth Agenda
David Bradbury and
Bert Brys | 22 July 2016
Blog,
Fiscal | 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
Blog,
Fiscal | 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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Africa could become the world’s next powerhouse
Gilles Carbonnier | 26 September 2013
Blog,
Fiscal,
Trade | Tags:
Commodities,
Taxes “A winning Africa!” “Thousands of Portuguese workers emigrate to the former colony of Angola in search of work.” Headlines such as these are a perfect illustration of the Afro-optimism that has gripped the media these last few years. In an Africa courted by foreign investors,
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The Case for an International Tax Organisation
Peter Dietsch and
Thomas Rixen | 19 March 2013
Blog,
Fiscal | Tags:
Tax Competition,
Taxes Capital mobility entails fiscal interdependence. Since the abolition of capital controls in the 1960s and 1970s, and following the widespread abolition of withholding taxes in the wake of the first move in this direction by the Reagan administration in 1984, fiscal interdependence has turned from
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Europe’s fiscal blind spot
Stephen Boucher | 23 October 2012
Blog,
Fiscal | Tags:
Carbon Taxes,
Climate,
Taxes Smarter taxes on energy and emissions to reduce public deficits As European governments desperately try to plug public deficits, restore competitiveness, employment and growth, the tendency would seem to be towards less environmental policies. What if more environmental protection and putting a price on pollution
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