Raising Revenue with a Progressive Value-Added Tax
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Keywords
Consumption Tax; Progressive; Revenue;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- H27 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Other Sources of Revenue
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ACC-2020-03-30 (Accounting and Auditing)
- NEP-PBE-2020-03-30 (Public Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2020-03-30 (Public Finance)
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