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Indirect Tax Incidence in Brazil : Assessing the Distributional Effects of Potential Tax Reforms
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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Using recent expenditure survey data, this paper investigates the incidence of all indirect taxes in Brazil. It applies a novel approach to estimate the effective tax rate by computing the specific cumulative taxes levied on thousands of items available in the data set. The findings show that for every RD 100 of indirect tax revenue, the first and second deciles pay RD 2 and RD 3, respectively, while the ninth and tenth deciles pay RD 16 and RD 33, respectively. Meanwhile, indirect taxes represent between 23 and 45 percent of income among the poorest households. Simulations of a value-added tax reform suggest that it could be inequality reducing both horizontally and vertically. A flat value-added tax accompanied by excise taxes on fuel items, alcohol, and tobacco would also lead to lower decreases in expenditures. Households would spend 2.8 percent less on average, with those in the bottom (top) decile spending 7.0 percent (1.5 percent) less.

Equity and efficiency considerations of public higher education
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ISSN: 00758442 ISBN: 1280411821 9786610411825 3540285156 3540261974 Year: 2005 Volume: 557 Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Springer,

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It has become part of the conventional wisdom in the economics of education that subsidies to higher education have a regressive distributional effect. Given that relatively more children from wealthier families enroll in higher education, many economist assume that these subsidies to higher education have an unwanted distributional impact. This volume presents new empirical evidence for the cross-sectional point of view and provides an analytical framework for the longitudinal perspective. The present volume also analyzes the equity and efficiency effects of widely-discussed funding reforms and proposes a voluntary graduate tax.

Capital taxation
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ISBN: 0674094824 Year: 1983 Publisher: London Harvard University Press


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Fairness in Taxation
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ISBN: 1442623292 0802074596 9781442623293 9780802074591 1442655852 Year: 1993 Publisher: Toronto

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The papers in this volume explore the idea of distributive justice and fairness in taxation. The collection begins with Head's excellent presentation and analysis of equity in the public finance literature. The other authors, starting from this point, critique and amplify the concept from various philosophical perspectives and academic disciplines.

Economic effects of fundamental tax reform
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ISBN: 081570058X Year: 1996 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution Press


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Tax Justice and the Political Economy of Global Capitalism, 1945 to the Present
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ISBN: 0857458825 9780857458827 1299950809 9781299950801 9780857458810 0857458817 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York Oxford

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Tax "justice" has become an increasingly central issue of political debate in many countries, particularly following the cardiac arrest of global financial services in 2008 and the subsequent worldwide slump in trade and production. The evident abuse of tax systems by corporations and rich individuals through tax avoidance schemes and offshore shadow banking is increasingly in the public eye. Above all, the political challenges of recovery and structural reform have raised core issues of burden-sharing and social equity on the agendas of both civil society groups and political elites. Democra

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