Effects of Adopting a Value-added Tax
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 100
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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
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoes 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.
How to Manage Value-Added Tax Refunds
Author: Mario Pessoa
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2021-05-10
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 1513577042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
International VAT/GST Guidelines
Author: OECD
Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789264272040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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).
Advances in Taxation
Author: John Hasseldine
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2023-06-16
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1837533601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the latest volume of Advances in Taxation, editor John Hasseldine includes studies from expert contributors to explore topics such as: the stock market reaction to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act; strategic repatriations made by firms; and corporate social responsibility and tax planning.
Estimating VAT Pass Through
Author: Ms.Dora Benedek
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2015-09-30
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13: 1513586351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper estimates the pass through of VAT changes to consumer prices, using a unique dataset providing disaggregated, monthly data on prices and VAT rates for 17 Eurozone countries over 1999-2013. Pass through is much less than full on average, and differs markedly across types of VAT change. For changes in the standard rate, for instance, final pass through is about 100 percent; for reduced rates it is significantly less, at around 30 percent; and for reclassifications it is essentially zero. We also find: differing dynamics of pass through for durables and non-durables; no significant difference in pass through between rate increases and decreases; signs of non-monotonicity in the relationship between pass through and the breadth of the consumption base affected; and indications of significant anticipation effects together with some evidence of lagged effects in the two years around reform. The results are robust against endogeneity and attenuation bias.
The VAT Reader
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780918255181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTax Administration Reform in China
Author: John Brondolo
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2016-03-17
Total Pages: 67
ISBN-13: 1475523610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTax administration improvements have contributed significantly to a doubling of China’s tax-to-GDP ratio and the substantial reduction in taxpayers’ compliance costs since the mid-1990s. This paper describes the key features of China’s tax administration and their evolution over the last 20 years. It also identifes emerging challenges to the tax system and areas where further tax administration improvements are needed to sustain tax revenue and reduce taxpayers’ compliance costs in the future.
Doing Business 2020
Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2019-11-21
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1464814414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeventeen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2020 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity.
