2022
DOI: 10.1111/pbaf.12312
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The removal of tax expenditures from Spanish personal income tax: Impact on tax collection and income distribution

Abstract: The paper estimates the consequences for tax revenue and income distribution of the removal of the tax expenditures from Spanish Personal Income Tax (IRPF) in place during the 2013 tax year. The paper concludes that the removal of all the tax expenditures analyzed would increase revenue by €24,457 million (37.9% of the IRPF actual collection), and that the redistributive effect, measured by the Reynolds‐Smolensky index, would be reduced by 1.1%. The paper also analyzes sundry hypothetical scenarios involving t… Show more

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“…The tax credit for children and other dependents of the taxpayer is also considered a component of the tax expenditure budget (TPC, 2022). In Italy, the universal tax credit that compensates for the absence of a tax-exempt income threshold not covered by the income tax schedule, is treated as a tax expenditures, as is the tax credit for dependent relatives (Tyson, 2014;López-Laborda, Marín-González & Onrubia, 2022). In Spain, personal and family allowances, including for dependent children, parents, grandparents, and disability, are part of the income tax benchmark (OECD, 2010), while the child tax credit is a component of the tax expenditures (EY, 2022).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The tax credit for children and other dependents of the taxpayer is also considered a component of the tax expenditure budget (TPC, 2022). In Italy, the universal tax credit that compensates for the absence of a tax-exempt income threshold not covered by the income tax schedule, is treated as a tax expenditures, as is the tax credit for dependent relatives (Tyson, 2014;López-Laborda, Marín-González & Onrubia, 2022). In Spain, personal and family allowances, including for dependent children, parents, grandparents, and disability, are part of the income tax benchmark (OECD, 2010), while the child tax credit is a component of the tax expenditures (EY, 2022).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Baldini (2021) [3] believed that personal income tax in Italy is more redistributive than 40 years ago, with a slight increase in progressiveness. Badenes & Buenaventura Zabala (2017) [2], Darío Serrano Puente (2020) [7] and López Laborda et al (2022) [27] respectively studied the impact of personal income tax reform on income distribution in Spain. Chou and Fu (2022) [6] found that the personal income tax reform of Taiwan in 2016 helped improve fairness in income distribution, but the effect was limited.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“… some countries (Croatia, Malta, Cyprus, Japan, Switzerland, etc.) do not comply with demands of the EU Direc-tive on reporting tax expenditures thus it does not allow comprehensive exchange of tax information (Burman et al, 2017;Kaplow, 2017;López-Laborda et al, 2022).…”
Section: The Advantages and Disadvantages Of The Tax Expenditure Conceptmentioning
confidence: 99%