Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464814414
Seventeen 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.
Author : Mario Pessoa
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 23,70 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 : Ms.Dora Benedek
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 50,57 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 : Ms.Era Dabla-Norris
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2017-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1475595166
Tax compliance costs tend to be disproportionately higher for small and young businesses. This paper examines how the quality of tax administration affects firm performance for a large sample of firms in emerging market and developing economies. We construct a novel, internationally comparable, and multidimensional index of tax administration quality (the TAQI) using information from the Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool. We show that better tax administration attenuates the productivity gap of small and young firms relative to larger and older firms, a result that is robust to controlling for other aspects of tax policy and of economic governance, alternative definitions of small and young firms, and measures of the quality of tax administration. From a policy perspective, we provide evidence that countries can reap growth and productivity dividends from improvements in tax administration that lower compliance costs faced by firms.
Author : Joel Slemrod
Publisher :
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472103386
Experts discuss strategies for curtailing tax evasion
Author : OECD
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,50 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 : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Committee on Fiscal Affairs. Working Party No. 8
Publisher : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; Washington, D.C. : OECD Publications and Information Center
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Law
ISBN :
This report provides a detailed description and analysis of the different legal provisions in twenty-two OECD countries relating to taxpayers' rights and the compliance powers of tax authorities. The accompanying tables present a comparison of country practices in 1989 and identify major reforms introduced in recent years.
Author : International Monetary Fund. European Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1475589492
Portugal’s economy is in deep recession, and the crisis has opened up a large output gap, with severe consequences for employment and government revenue. While the focus is on the medium- and long-term, this analysis also offers insights on how deep the output gap is. It also highlights ways in which policies and reforms can promote growth over the longer haul and suggests that achieving a 2-percent growth rate over the long term—consistent with moderate convergence growth—is a realistic objective.
Author : John Brondolo
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1475523610
Tax 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.
Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1498344895
This paper addresses core challenges that all tax administrations face in dealing with noncompliance—which are now receiving renewed attention. Long a priority in developing countries, assuring strong compliance has acquired greater priority in countries facing intensified revenue needs, and is critical for fairness and statebuilding. Series: Policy Papers
