The Value-Added Tax : Its Causes and Consequences /

Has the VAT proved, as its proponents claim, an especially effective form of taxation? To address this, this paper first shows that a tax innovation-such as the introduction of a VAT- reduces the marginal cost of public funds if and only if it also leads an optimizing government to increase the tax...

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主要作者: Lockwood, Ben
其他作者: Keen, Michael
格式: 杂志
语言:English
出版: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
丛编:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/183
在线阅读:Full text available on IMF