This paper presents progressivity breakdowns for Croatian personal income tax (henceforth PIT) in 1997 and 2004. The decompositions reveal how the elements of the system – tax schedule, allowances, deductions and credits – contribute to the achievement of progressivity, over the quantiles of pre-tax income distribution. Through the use of ‘single parameter’ Gini indices, the social decision mak...

Taiwan, Republic of China (ROC), introduced a new income tax system, combining corporate and personal income taxes, on 1 January 1976. This new tax system, resembling those used in many European countries, has had a significant impact on the debt/equity capital structure of companies domiciled in Taiwan. This study provides historical background concerning taxing policies, an analysis of the ne...

This paper examines elements of British tax policy and discusses their implications for the US, where several recent proposals would mirror aspects of the British system. These include reducing filing requirements under the individual income tax, indexing capital gains for inflation, cutting mortgage interest deductions, enacting a value added tax, and integrating the corporate and personal inc...

In the spirit of the elasticity of taxable income literature, which has primarily considered federal taxes using individual data, we estimate panel regressions of state personal income tax bases on state tax rates, structures, and other controls. We consider actual tax base data gathered directly from revenue offi cials, a calculated tax base defi ned as collections divided by the top tax rate,...

We analyze the taxation of top personal incomes in Germany on the basis of an integrated data file of individual tax returns and a general household survey for the years 1992 2002. The unique feature of this integrated data set is that it includes all taxpayers in the top percentile of the gross income distribution. We show that despite substantial tax base erosion and significant reductions of...

At first glance, the elimination of the corporate tax on business seems an obvious method of attracting new firms to the state and promoting the expansion of existing firms. And in fact, states and localities have been offering tax incentives, usually in the form of reduced property taxes or corporate income tax credits, to firms for many years. Under current law, Georgia imposes a 6 percent ta...

/RESUMÉ Do tax structures affect aggregate economic growth? Empirical evidence from a panel of OECD countries This paper examines the relationship between tax structures and economic growth by entering indicators of the tax structure into a set of panel growth regressions for 21 OECD countries, in which both the accumulation of physical and human capital are accounted for. The results of the an...

We analyze differential redistributive effects, voting preferences and revenue elasticities of bilinear tax reforms that are applied to dual taxes or, more generally, to two different one-dimensional taxes. We prove that a partial order -which induces a latticebased on the Lorenz dominance criterion can be established if certain conditions on the tax reform policy and the income distribution ho...

Do income taxes levied at a state or regional level affect the after-tax distribution of income? Or do workers merely move between regions, causing pre-tax wages to adjust? Using the full income tax parameters for all US states from 1977-2002, I create a “simulated tax redistribution index”, which captures the mechanical impact of changes in tax policy on the Gini coefficient, but is exogenous ...