Potential Tax Reforms and Kuwait Economic Growth

Economic Freedom, Economic Growth And Governments Tax Revenue In (MENA)

Tax Evasion and Economic Growth∗

In this paper we analyze how the tax compliance policy affects the rate of economic growth. We consider a model of overlapping generations in which the paths of all the macroeconomic variables are endogenously determined and we perform the comparative statics analysis of changes in both the probability of inspection and the penalty fee imposed on tax evaders. We also show the nonoptimality from...

Socially-Efficient Tax Reforms∗

We propose graphical methods to determine whether commodity-tax changes are “socially efficient”, in the sense of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. We also derive estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially-efficient tax reforms. The statistical properties of ...

Business Tax Reform and Economic Growth

It is great to come back to NYU Law and especially fitting to be discussing business tax reform with all of you. Nearly a decade ago I co-taught the tax colloquium with Dan Shaviro. I am not sure how much anyone learned from me but I learned a huge amount from the NYU community and Dan in particular. And that learning continued in my close partnership with David Kamin for several years in the W...

Economic Policy Reforms 2015: Going for Growth

This chapter reviews the evidence on the potential effect of pro-growth structural reforms on wage dispersion and household income inequality and examines whether specific policies driving GDP growth over the past decades may have also contributed to widening inequalities. In doing so, it distinguishes between the main channels via which policies affect growth and income distribution and identi...