Author : Kathryn James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 110704412X
Explores how the value-added tax (VAT) has risen from relative obscurity to become one of the world's most dominant revenue instruments.
Author : Mr.Santiago Acosta Ormaechea
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 149831418X
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.
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Page : 349 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Sales tax
ISBN : 9780918255181
Author : Mario Pessoa
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1513577042
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.
Author : Alan Schenk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 32,58 MB
Release : 2007-01-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521851121
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.
Author : Ms.Dora Benedek
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1513586351
This 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.
Author : Mr.Liam P. Ebrill
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 2001-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1589060261
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.
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Consumer goods
ISBN :
Author : OECD
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Intangible property
ISBN : 9789264272040
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).
Author : Robert F. van Brederode
Publisher : Springer
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,24 MB
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9811034656
This book explains the theoretical and policy issues associated with the taxation of financial services and includes a jurisdictional overview that illustrates alternative policy choices and the legal consequences of those choices . The book addresses the question: how can financial services in an increasingly globalized market best be taxed through VAT while avoiding economic distortions? It supports the discussion of the key practical problems that have arisen from the particular complexity of the application of VAT to financial services, and allows for the evaluation of best practice by comparing the major current reform models now being implemented.
