Personal Income Tax Progressivity : Trends and Implications /

This paper discusses how the structure of the tax system affects its progressivity. It suggests a measure of progressive capacity of tax systems, based on the Kakwani index, but independent of pre-tax income distributions. Using this and other progressivity measures, the paper (i) documents a declin...

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Hovedforfatter: Gerber, Claudia
Andre forfattere: Klemm, Alexander, Liu, Li, Mylonas, Victor
Format: Tidsskrift
Sprog:English
Udgivet: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Serier:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/246
Online adgang:Full text available on IMF
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