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Tax Reform and Shadow Prices for Pakistan

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Ahmad, Ehtisham
Stern, Nicholas

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The assumption, which is common in tax analysis, that producer prices are undistorted may not be appropriate, particularly for developing countries. Where shadow prices (social opportunity costs) and market prices differ, one must replace "revenue" in the "social marginal cost of revenue" (a concept developed in their earlier work) by the shadow cost of output or, equivalently, by the shadow revenue. Rankings of goods by the social marginal cost of shadow revenue for Pakistan (using data from the mid-1970s) are presented and shown to depend sensitively on the difference between market and shadow prices as well as on distributional value judgements. Copyright 1990 by Royal Economic Society.

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Volume (Year): 42 (1990)
Issue (Month): 1 (January)
Pages: 135-59
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  1. Ahmad, Ehtisham & Ludlow, Stephen, 1989. "The distributional consequences of a tax reform on a VAT for Pakistan," Policy Research Working Paper Series 238, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
  2. Anwar Shah & John Whalley, 1990. "An Alternative View of Tax Incidence Analysis for Developing Countries," NBER Working Papers 3375, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. Anderson, James E., 1997. "Revenue Neutral Trade Reform with Many Households, Quotas and Tariffs," Seminar Papers 626, Stockholm University, Institute for International Economic Studies. [Downloadable!]
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  4. James E. Anderson, 1999. "Trade Reform Diagnostics with Many Households, Quotas, and Tariffs," Boston College Working Papers in Economics 417, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 03 May 2000. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Can Erbil, 2004. "Trade Taxes Are Expensive," International Trade 0409002, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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