Dynamic Scoring of Tax Reforms in the European Union

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Salvador Barrios

European Commission, JRC - IPTS

Mathias Dolls

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) - Ifo Institute; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Anamaria Maftei

Andreas Peichl

ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research; University of Mannheim - School of Economics (VWL); IZA Institute of Labor Economics; University of Essex - Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Sara Riscado

Bank of Portugal

Janos Varga

European Union - Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN)

Christian Wittneben

ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

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Date Written: March 15, 2017

Abstract

In this paper, we present the first dynamic scoring exercise linking a multi‐country microsimulation and DSGE models for all countries of the European Union. We illustrate our novel methodology analysing a hypothetical tax reform for Belgium. We then evaluate real tax reforms in Italy and Poland. Our approach takes into account the feedback effects resulting from adjustments in the labor market and the economy‐wide reaction to the tax policy changes. Our results suggest that accounting for the behavioral reaction and macroeconomic feedback to tax policy changes enriches the tax reforms' analysis, by increasing the accuracy of the direct fiscal and distributional impact assessment provided by the microsimulation model for the tax reforms considered. Our results are in line with previous dynamic scoring exercises, showing that most tax reforms entail relatively smaller feedback effects in terms of the labor tax revenues for tax cuts benefiting workers, compared with the ones granted to firms.

Suggested Citation

Barrios, Salvador and Dolls, Mathias and Maftei, Anamaria and Peichl, Andreas and Riscado, Sara and Varga, Janos and Wittneben, Christian, Dynamic Scoring of Tax Reforms in the European Union (March 15, 2017). ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 17-017, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939601 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2939601

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Andreas Peichl

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University of Mannheim - School of Economics (VWL) ( email )

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IZA Institute of Labor Economics ( email )

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Germany

University of Essex - Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)

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Sara Riscado

Bank of Portugal ( email )

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Portugal

Janos Varga

European Union - Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) ( email )

BU-1 05/190
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Belgium

Christian Wittneben

ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research ( email )

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D-68034 Mannheim, 68034
Germany

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