Excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco have long been a dependable and significant revenue source in many countries. More recently, considerable attention has been paid to the way in which such taxes may also be used to attain public health objectives by reducing the consumption of products with...

Revenue and Gross State Domestic Product data for 1993-94 to 2008-09 are used to study the revenue performance of the state Value-Added Tax (VAT) in India's 29 states. Both the direct revenue impact and the indirect impact through the VAT base were assessed. No indirect impact of the VAT on its...

This paper proposes a method for evaluating the impact of tax reform on tax revenues and the distribution of the tax burden. The technique consists of decomposing actual revenue relative to potential revenue into components attributable to (i) changes in the tax rate structure (ii) deductions...