A Comparative Analysis of the Structure of Tax Systems in Industrial Countries

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Enrique G. Mendoza

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); University of Pennsylvania

Assaf Razin

Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Linda L. Tesar

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Date Written: February 1993

Abstract

A methodology for computing effective average tax rates on factor incomes and consumption using OECD data from national accounts and revenue statistics is described and applied to construct time series of tax rates for the group of seven largest industrialized countries. These tax rates are compared with estimates of effective marginal tax rates obtained in other studies. The stylized facts that distinguish tax systems across countries are documented, and the co-movements between the tax rates and savings, investment, net exports, unemployment, and hours worked are also examined. The results of this analysis illustrate some of the potential implications of tax policies currently under consideration and suggest that the proposed tax rates are useful approximations to those faced by representative agents in dynamic macroeconomic models.

JEL Classification: F41, H20

Suggested Citation

Mendoza, Enrique G. and Razin, Assaf and Tesar, Linda L., A Comparative Analysis of the Structure of Tax Systems in Industrial Countries (February 1993). IMF Working Paper No. 93/14, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=883436

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