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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gerber, Claudia
Other Authors: Klemm, Alexander, Liu, Li, Mylonas, Victor
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/246
Online Access:Full text available on IMF