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Socially-Efficient Tax Reforms

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Duclos, Jean-Yves
Makdissi, Paul
Wodon, Quentin

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We propose graphical methods to determine whether commodity-tax changes are "socially efficient", in the sense of improving social welfare or decreasing poverty for large classes of social welfare and poverty indices. We also derive estimators of critical poverty lines and economic efficiency ratios which can be used to characterize socially-efficient tax reforms. The statistical properties of the various estimators are derived in order to make the method implementable using survey data. The methodology is illustrated using a recently-proposed reform of the Mexican Valued Added Tax system.

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Paper provided by Université Laval - Département d'économique in its series Cahiers de recherche with number 0201.

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Keywords: Social Welfare; Poverty; Efficiency; Tax Reform; Stochastic Dominance;

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H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

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