Republic of Kazakhstan : Selected Issues.
This Selected Issues paper conducts a review of taxes on labor in Kazakhstan, which, despite the current relatively low level of collections, have the potential to become an important source of non-oil fiscal revenue. This paper focuses on one group of non-oil taxes, personal income tax and other ta...
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| Format: | Revista |
| Idioma: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2020.
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| Col·lecció: | IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ;
No. 2020/038 |
| Accés en línia: | Full text available on IMF |
| Sumari: | This Selected Issues paper conducts a review of taxes on labor in Kazakhstan, which, despite the current relatively low level of collections, have the potential to become an important source of non-oil fiscal revenue. This paper focuses on one group of non-oil taxes, personal income tax and other taxes on labor, and reviews their effective burden, progressivity, and efficiency. These taxes are found to have limited responsiveness to oil-sector fluctuations, and thus help enhance the resilience of public finance to oil shocks. The existing labor tax system is characterized by a low, flat headline rate, limited progressivity except at the lower end of household income distribution due to deduction of the minimum wage, and a relatively high tax burden mainly born by the formal sector. Having a more equitable and efficient labor tax system would involve a targeted strategy for deductions and exemptions, expanding the tax base, and continuing to improve tax design, administration, and collection enforcement. |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (69 pages) |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet |
| ISSN: | 1934-7685 |
| Accés: | Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students |