Tax Expenditures in OECD Countries

Tax Expenditures in OECD Countries
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2010-01-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9264076905

This book sheds light on the use of tax expenditures, mainly through a study of ten OECD countries: Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. It highlights key trends and successful practices.


Brazil: Tax Expenditure Rationalization Within Broader Tax Reform

Brazil: Tax Expenditure Rationalization Within Broader Tax Reform
Author: Maria Delgado Coelho
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2021-09-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1513596624

The excessive complexity and burden of the Brazilian tax system, riddled by cumulative indirect taxes and heavy payroll contributions, have led to an accumulation of fiscal incentives aimed at reducing its burden on taxpayers and productive activities. Federal and subnational tax expenditures currently stand at over 5 percent of GDP. Rationalizing them can only be comprehensively feasible in the context of a broader sequenced tax reform, and could reduce resource misallocation and income inequality, as well as provide new revenues.


Tax Expenditures, Shedding Light on Government Spending Through the Tax System

Tax Expenditures, Shedding Light on Government Spending Through the Tax System
Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Discusses conceptual and methodological issues relating to tax expenditures, provides a framework for evaluating them, offers case studies on government treatment of tax expenditures from developed and transition economies, and outlines generally applicable policy options. Provides case studies of the treatment of tax expenditures in Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United States. Each chapter presents how the nation defines tax expenditures and the corresponding benchmark tax system.


Oregon Blue Book

Oregon Blue Book
Author: Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1895
Genre: Oregon
ISBN:


Options to Improve Tax Compliance and Reform Tax Expenditures

Options to Improve Tax Compliance and Reform Tax Expenditures
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Taxation
Publisher: Joint Committee on Taxation
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Describes proposals to to reduce the size of the Federal tax gap by curtaling tax shelters, closing unintended loopholes, addressing other areas of noncompliance with current tax law, and reforming certain areas of tax expenditures.