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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957404003321

Autore

Tervala Juha

Titolo

Tax Reforms, “Free Lunches”, and “Cheap Lunches” in Open Economies / / Juha Tervala, Giovanni Ganelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

ISBN

9786612841781

9781462343683

1462343686

9781452713762

1452713766

9781451870855

145187085X

9781282841789

1282841785

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (32 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/227

Altri autori (Persone)

GanelliGiovanni

Disciplina

336.2

Soggetti

Taxation - Econometric models

Public welfare - Econometric models

Business Taxes and Subsidies

Consumption taxes

Consumption

Economics

Income and capital gains taxes

Income tax

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies

Public finance & taxation

Public Finance

Revenue administration

Revenue

Saving

Spendings tax

Tax administration and procedure

Tax collection

Taxation

Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General



Wealth

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. The Model; A. Households; B. The Government; C. Firms; D. The Initial Steady State; III. Parameterization; IV. The Domestic and International Effects of a Cut in the Income Tax Rate; A. The Impact on the Domestic Economy; B. The International Effects; V. Consumption Tax Cuts; VI. A Revenue Neutral Tax Reform; VII. Sensitivity Analysis; VII. Conclusions; Appendix; References

Sommario/riassunto

This paper focuses on the macroeconomic and budgetary impact of tax reforms in a New Keynesian two-country model. Our results show that both income and consumption unilateral tax rate reductions do not constitute a "free lunch", in the sense that they have negative budgetary consequences for the country which implements them. In addition, the degree of self-financing implied by our model is in the 8½-24 percent range. Since the degree of self-financing estimated in previous literature was larger, we conclude that in our model not only the "lunch" is not "free", but is also not that "cheap". A comparison of alternative (income-tax versus consumption-tax based) fiscal stimulus packages shows that consumption tax cuts imply a larger short-run impact on domestic output but the income tax cuts stimulate the domestic economy more in the long run. We also look at the implications of a revenue-neutral tax reform in which consumption taxes are increased to compensate for lower income tax collection.