Tax Systems Under Fiscal Adjustment: A Dynamic CGE Analysis of the Brazilian Tax Reform

July 1, 2005

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Victor Duarte Lledo. Tax Systems Under Fiscal Adjustment: A Dynamic CGE Analysis of the Brazilian Tax Reform, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed October 6, 2024

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Summary

This paper uses a dynamic computable general equilibrium model (CGE) to analyze the macroeconomic and redistributive effects of replacing turnover and financial transaction taxes in Brazil by a consumption tax. In order to approximate Brazil's compliance with its fiscal adjustment targets, the proposed reform is subject to a non increasing path for the level of public debt. Despite an increase in the average consumption tax rate in the first years after the reform, a majority of individuals experienced an increase in their lifetime welfare. This result rejects the hypothesis that the on-going fiscal adjustment effort carried on by the Brazilian government was an obstacle to the implementation of a more efficient tax system.

Subject: Consumption, Consumption taxes, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal policy, National accounts, Public debt, Revenue administration, Taxes

Keywords: Brazil., Cascading tax, Computable general equilibrium, Consumption, Consumption taxes, Distortionary tax, Fiscal adjustment, Fiscal consolidation, Income effect, Substitution effect, Tax competition, Tax constraint, Tax effort, Tax payment, Tax reform, Tax reform attempt, Tax reform gridlock, Tax reform implementation, Tax reform proposal, Tax reform simulation, Tax system, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

33
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Working Paper No. 2005/142
Stock No:

WPIEA2005142
ISBN:

9781451861617
ISSN:

1018-5941

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