Tax Reform

Tax reform is the process of changing the way taxes are collected or managed by the government and is usually undertaken to improve tax administration or to provide economic or social benefits. Tax reform can include reducing the level of taxation of all people by the government, making the tax system more progressive or less progressive, or simplifying the tax system and making the system more understandable or more accountable. Numerous organizations have been set up to reform tax systems worldwide, often with the intent to reform income taxes or value added taxes into something considered more economically liberal. Other …

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ORF: Observer Research Foundation · 15 November 2024 English

Editor’s Note The climate crisis has evolved from a looming threat to an undeniable reality that demands immediate attention. The compounding and cascading effects of climate-induced extreme weather events are …

The United Nations Development Programme’s financing SDGs program provides a framework for tax reforms.19 In the short


Cato Institute · 14 November 2024 English

The goal of the 2025 tax extensions should be to keep tax rates low and meet calls for additional pro-growth tax cuts, such as a lower corporate tax rate and …

health insurance may be beyond the scope of 2025 tax reform, including other fringe benefits in taxable income of these reforms are also included in the Cato tax reform plan, which outlines more than $14 trillion of


EPRS: European Parliamentary Research Service · 13 November 2024 English

Mihály Varga, Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister, of Hungary is participating in the ECON Committee in his capacity of President of the ECOFIN Council during the Hungarian Presidency …

comprehensive land use policy and a property tax reform and prioritise the development of large-scale


World Bank Group · 13 November 2024 English

The Nigeria Development Update (NDU) is a World Bank report series produced twice a year that assesses recent economic and social developments and prospects in Nigeria, and places these in …

Second, continued progress on non-oil revenue growth through tax reforms and improved administration is x NIGERIA DEVELOPMENT


Cato Institute · 13 November 2024 English

The Social Security trust fund is often misunderstood. Many believe it to be a genuine financial asset ensuring future benefits. This paper challenges that misconception, showing that the trust fund …

Tax Rates and Cutting Loopholes: Options for Tax Reform in the 119th Congress by Adam N. Michel (June


The South Centre · 13 November 2024

The Supreme Court found that in the absence in the Bill of mitigatory measures -as allowed by the TRIPS Agreement- and of a working definition of the term “microorganism”, there …

Framework and all the stakeholders of the global tax reform negotiations to consider revising the global essential guideposts for effective international tax reform. https://www.southcentre.int/tax-cooperation 2023, the government of Honduras submitted a tax reform bill called the “Tax Justice Law” to the National


Cato Institute · 13 November 2024 English

Now that Donald Trump has won a second term as president, everyone who cares about financial regulation and monetary policy wants to know what to expect in Trump administration 2.0. …

first Trump administration decided to focus on tax reform rather than financial regulatory reform. No major


World Bank Group · 13 November 2024 English

State building and state legitimacy in the states emerging from fragility are inseparable from the notion of social contract. Social contract is a dynamic agreement between the state and society, …

Given the fragile country context, can the current tax system absorb the large set of tax reforms currently on the agenda The ongoing efforts on customs and income tax reforms, including harmonization across the FGS and FMS, are deemed to provide


World Bank Group · 13 November 2024 English

This Knowledge Note aims to document National Tax and Customs Authority's (DIAN's) experience in sex-disaggregating income taxpayer data and provide examples of the use of disaggregated data for policy analysis. …

prepared by the Integrating Gender Equality into Tax Reform project team of the World Bank’s Global Tax NOTE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The 2022 Colombian Tax Reform gave the National Tax and Customs Authority (DIAN) legal mandate given to DIAN through the 2022 Tax Reform and the commitment and leadership of the former for this phase. 2022 Colombian Tax Reform 2022 Colombian Tax Reform gave DIAN the mandate to conduct inequalities” (Ley 2277, 2022, Art. 90). The tax reform also mandates DIAN to collect taxpayers’ sex


World Bank Group · 12 November 2024 English

This paper investigates the determinants of mining projects, with a focus on green minerals. The research question is the effect of political risk on investment decisions, the size of projects, …

budgets in Chile (Castillo, 2021). It shows that a tax reform that increased but stabilized tax levels – a


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