“…To date, much of what we know about the taxation versus employment nexus and its impact on public expenditure lies in macroeconomics (Kotlikoff et al, 1984;Shin et al, 2012), through the traditional Keynesian model of economic growth, where taxes affect households consumption through reducing the disposable income available for household consumption if the taxes are high, disable income reduces and thus consumption reduces, and given the fact that under these models income is either consumed or saved, thus a high tax on incomes reduces savings to (Kotlikoff et al, 1984). Empirically there have been several studies investigating the impact of taxes on different macroeconomic various, and these among others include (Almunia et al, 2015;Mawejje & Munyambonera, 2016;Ssewanyana & Okidi, 2008;Terefe & Teera, 2018) in Uganda and (Alloza, 2020;Ameyaw et al, 2015;Bartkus, 2017;Bikas & Jurevičiūtė, 2016;Bilek et al, 2021;Davies et al, 2021;Ewa et al, 2020;Hamoudi, 2019;Hoppe et al, 2020;Hysa, 2019;Levell et al, 2020;Lyeonov & Michalkova, 2021;Merima et al, 2012;Park & Park, 2018;Pohwani et al, 2019;Sahebe et al, 2020;Sari & Mulyati, 2018) conducted elsewhere as discussed below.…”