The Value Added Tax and Growth: Design Matters

The Value Added Tax and Growth: Design Matters

Author: Mr.Santiago Acosta Ormaechea

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 149831418X

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Does the design of a tax matter for growth? Assembling a novel dataset for 30 OECD countries over the 1970-2016 period, this paper examines whether the value added tax (VAT) may have different effects on long-run growth depending on whether it is raised through the standard rate or through C-efficiency (a measure of the departure of the VAT from a perfectly enforced tax levied at a single rate on all consumption). Our key findings are twofold. First, for a given total tax revenue, a rise in the VAT, financed by a fall in income taxes, promotes growth only when the VAT is raised through C-efficiency. Second, for a given VAT revenue, a rise in Cefficiency, offset by a fall in the standard rate, also promotes growth. The implication is thus that in OECD countries broadening the VAT base through fewer reduced rates and exemptions is more conducive to higher long-run growth than a rise in the standard rate.


Effects of Adopting a Value-added Tax

Effects of Adopting a Value-added Tax

Author: Jon Hakken

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13:

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I. Introduction -- II. How a VAT works -- III. Base of a value-added tax -- IV. Who bears the burden of a VAT? -- V. Economic effects of a VAT -- VI. Costs of administering and complying with a VAT -- VII. Direct consumption tax as an alternative to a VAT.


How to Manage Value-Added Tax Refunds

How to Manage Value-Added Tax Refunds

Author: Mario Pessoa

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2021-05-10

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13: 1513577042

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The value-added tax (VAT) has the potential to generate significant government revenue. Despite its intrinsic self-enforcement capacity, many tax administrations find it challenging to refund excess input credits, which is critical to a well-functioning VAT system. Improperly functioning VAT refund practices can have profound implications for fiscal policy and management, including inaccurate deficit measurement, spending overruns, poor budget credibility, impaired treasury operations, and arrears accumulation.This note addresses the following issues: (1) What are VAT refunds and why should they be managed properly? (2) What practices should be put in place (in tax policy, tax administration, budget and treasury management, debt, and fiscal statistics) to help manage key aspects of VAT refunds? For a refund mechanism to be credible, the tax administration must ensure that it is equipped with the strategies, processes, and abilities needed to identify VAT refund fraud. It must also be prepared to act quickly to combat such fraud/schemes.


The Rise of the Value-Added Tax

The Rise of the Value-Added Tax

Author: Kathryn James

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-04-30

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 110704412X

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Explores how the value-added tax (VAT) has risen from relative obscurity to become one of the world's most dominant revenue instruments.


International VAT/GST Guidelines

International VAT/GST Guidelines

Author: OECD

Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789264272040

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This paper set forth internationally agreed principles and standards for the value added tax (VAT) treatment of the most common types of international transactions, with a particular focus on trade in services and intangibles. Its aim is to minimise inconsistencies in the application of VAT in a cross-border context with a view to reducing uncertainty and risks of double taxation and unintended non-taxation in international trade. It also includes the recommended principles and mechanisms to address the challenges for the collection of VAT on crossborder sales of digital products that had been identified in the context of the OECD/G20 Project on Base and Erosion and Profit Shifting (the BEPS Project).


Value Added Tax

Value Added Tax

Author: Alan Schenk

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-01-22

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9780521851121

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This book integrates legal, economic, and administrative materials about value added tax. Its principal purpose is to provide comprehensive teaching tools - laws, cases, analytical exercises, and questions drawn from the experience of countries and organizations from all areas of the world. It also serves as a resource for tax practitioners and government officials that must grapple with issues under their VAT or their prospective VAT. The comparative presentation of this volume offers an analysis of policy issues relating to tax structure and tax base as well as insights into how cases arising out of VAT disputes have been resolved. The authors have expanded the coverage to include new VAT related developments in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. A chapter on financial services has been added as well as an analysis of significant new cases.


The Modern VAT

The Modern VAT

Author: Mr.Liam P. Ebrill

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2001-11-05

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1589060261

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Value-added tax, or VAT, first introduced less than 50 years ago, is now a pivotal component of tax systems around the world. The rapid and seemingly irresistible rise of the VAT is probably the most important tax development of the latter twentieth century, and certainly the most breathtaking. Written by a team of experts from the IMF, this book examines the remarkable spread and current reach of the innovative tax and draws lessons about the design and implementation of the VAT, as experienced by different countries around the world. How efficient is it as a tax, is it fair, and is it suitable for all countries? These are among the questions raised. This highly informative and well-researched book also looks at the likely future of the tax.


The Value-added Tax

The Value-added Tax

Author: Charles E. McLure

Publisher: A E I Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13:

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Updated discussion on the value-added tax system with reference to the business transfer tax from theoretical point of view considered.