A neoclassical growth model is augmented by a corporate sector, financial intermediation, and a set of tax rates. In this setting, capital structure is determined by the interplay between a tax advantage of debt finance and costly state verification entailed by asymmetric information. Effects of capital tax reforms are investigated with a special focus on this micro-founded credit channel of ta...

The paper summarizes the arguments in favor of a shift from comprehensive to dual income taxation and complements the discussion by an overview on tax reforms which reveal the characteristic features of a dual income tax system. The scope of our analysis is not restricted to the Nordic countries, we also include other European countries, whose tax reform steps can be regarded as a move toward a...

Osmel Manzano May 2000. Tax Effects upon Oil Field Development in Venezuela. Important reforms have been made to the oil sector tax code in Venezuela. Given its diversity of oil resources, there was a concern that some resources were not being exploited because of the structure of the tax code. This paper uses traditional theoretical models to review these reforms. Then, a panel of 821 Venezuel...

Tax reform has been an integral part of the economic reforms of most countries that have undertaken structural adjustment programmes. Even in the developed countries, tax reforms have been a prominent feature during the 1980s. One of the important reasons impelling governments of the developing countries embarking on economic reform programmes to undertake tax reform has been the need to cut th...

The dual income tax combines a progressive tax on labor income and a lower flat rate tax on income from capital. Denmark, Finland, $orway, and Sweden adopted dual income taxes to address a set of tax challenges that arose in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Although developing countries face much different economic, political, and tax environments from the $ordic countries, the dual income tax m...

This paper analyses distributional effects of revenue-neutral tax reforms aimed at improving dietary quality and encouraging healthier grain consumption. Using data on household grain purchases, we analyse both the impact on dietary quality and the tax incidence among income groups of VAT reforms and excise duty reforms. The VAT reforms include subsidies of healthy products (products labelled w...

Four tax reforms have been proposed in recent years: BradleyGephardt, Kemp-Kasten, Treasury I and Treasury II. These reforms seek to improve economic efficiency by taxing different capital assets and sources of income more equally. Each reform is purported to be revenueneutral from the perspective of the U.S. Treasury ,and distributionally neutral across households. While this alleged neutralit...

European governments aim to raise labour supply, cut unemployment rates and, at the same time, maintain social cohesion. Yet, economists have always stressed the trade-off between these objectives. This paper explores whether the frontier of the equity-efficiency trade-off can be shifted outwards in the Netherlands by using an applied general equilibrium model. In particular, we consider variou...