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Fiscal policy and redistribution in Ireland

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  • Barra Roantree

    (Trinity College Dublin)

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This paper explores the role fiscal policy plays in shaping the distribution of resources through the tax and transfer system in Ireland. It first shows that there has been a shift towards taxes on income and towards expenditure on income transfers as the size of government has increased. This has implications for the amount of redistribution, which appears relatively high compared to other European countries and has risen over the last three decades. However, the tax and transfer system can also shape the distribution of income through the effects it has on the behaviour of individuals, households and firms. Despite an explosion of international research on these effects in recent decades, we have little credible empirical evidence on the magnitude of these effects in Ireland, in large part due to the lack of access for researchers to administrative data.

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  • Barra Roantree, 2024. "Fiscal policy and redistribution in Ireland," Trinity Economics Papers tep0824, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:tcd:tcduee:tep0824
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    Keywords

    redistribution; inequality; efficiency; Ireland;
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    JEL classification:

    • H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
    • H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
    • H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General

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