Romania's medium-term fiscal framework calls for the fiscal deficit to decline gradually from about 8 percent of GDP in 2024 to 7 percent in 2025 and 3 percent (or less) by 2031. With limited scope for expenditure consolidation ‒ given the low expenditure-to-GDP ratio ‒ revenue mobilization...

Determining the optimal tax burden that maximizes compliance and revenue remains a major challenge in developing countries, partly due to the literature's focus on linear tax-compliance relationships. Using firm-level data from Ghana and an instrumental variable approach, this paper finds a...

Die 2009 eingeführte Abgeltungsteuer vereinfacht die Besteuerung der Einkünfte aus Kapitalvermögen. Sie scheint allerdings aufgrund des relativ niedrigen Steuersatzes Kapitaleinkommen gegenüber Arbeitseinkommen zu bevorzugen. Tatsächlich ist jedoch das Gegenteil der Fall.

This research investigates the impact of tax justice perception and tax understanding on the compliance of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) with government regulation Number 55, 2022, in Surabaya. The study, conducted at KPP Pratama Surabaya Wonocolo employs a quantitative approach,...

Many countries are currently debating whether to reduce or eliminate taxes on feminine hygiene products as a measure to address “period poverty” and promote gender equality. Legislators often reject proposals involving reforms of “tampon taxes” as the pass-through of sales taxes into...

Across the globe, the subject of immigration is politicized and polarizing. In the United States, the unauthorized immigrant population, I assert, is the result of immigration policies ill-suited to address economic and humanitarian realities. Specifically, undocumented immigrant workers yield...

The viability of our international tax system hinges on two things: (1) safeguarding the effective flow of international activities and (2) ensuring that countries can adequately collect tax on the income derived from those activities. Each of these fundamentals relies on a defensible/fair...

This Article examines the tax law’s subsidies for inequality and segregation in primary and secondary education, analyzing the federal charitable deduction and education savings plans, and state tax credits for education. It argues that the tax system diverts funds from traditional public...

Many countries are currently debating whether to reduce or eliminate taxes on feminine hygiene products as a measure to address "period poverty" and promote gender equality. Legislators often reject proposals involving reforms of "tampon taxes" as the pass-through of sales taxes into consumer...

One way to reduce inequality and poverty is to promote tax justice. In 2021, the government of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, implemented a program (the Devolve-ICMS Program) that refunds consumption tax to low-income citizens (cashback). This study aims to evaluate the impacts of this...

We decompose the redistributive effect of direct taxes into vertical, horizontal, and reranking components applying the methods of Urban and Lambert (Public Finance Review, 2008). In the first such application to the UK, and using yearly data covering 1977-2020, we find that redistributive...

Despite an established theoretical literature on (optimal) wealth taxation, the empirical literature is still in the process of catching up. Previous studies usually focus on country case studies and a specific type of wealth tax in isolation. This paper analyses from a cross-country perspective...

We characterize a measure of social welfare for linear production economies in which individuals differ in productive skills and preferences. The key feature of our measure is that it aggregates fairness gaps, defined as the difference between the money-metric utility that the individual...

We characterize a measure of social welfare for linear production economies in which individuals differ in productive skills and preferences. The key feature of our measure is that it aggregates fairness gaps, defined as the difference between the money-metric utility that the individual...

America does not tax its richest citizens, such as Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, at all. This Article argues that part of the reason is the paradox that under current income tax law and theory, taxing the rich would cost resources that could be made available to benefit the not-rich. The Article...

In the United States, unemployment insurance (UI) is funded through employer-side payroll taxes that are experience-rated based on previous UI claims. States differ significantly with respect to the financing of their programs, and a majority of state programs do not currently meet minimum UI...

Governments frequently use proxies for deservingness--tags--to implement progressive tax and transfer policies. These proxies are often imperfect, leading to misclassification and inequities among equally deserving individuals. This paper studies the efficiency effects of such misclassification...

The global agreement to introduce a minimum corporate income tax rate is arguably one of the most important tax policy developments of the last decades. Yet, there are growing concerns over its fairness. The aim of this paper is to consider the impact of process on fairness perceptions, drawing...