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Moroccan tax potential: Econometric analysis through the tax effort

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  • Nezha BOUSSELHAMI

    (Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Faculty of Legal, Economic end Social Sciences-Tanger-Morocco.)

  • Moustapha HAMZAOUI

    (Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Faculty of Legal, Economic end Social Sciences-Tanger-Morocco.)

Abstract

This paper aims to analyse the Moroccan tax potential compared to a sample of countries (panel), relying on the tax effort concept, wich allows isolating the part of the government public levying. It is an international study, using a panel data (25 countries-26 years). The result of econometrics estimations shows the positive effect of the GDP per capita, the openness degree of the economy, the monetization degree and the part of industrial Added Value on the public potential while the part of agricultural Added Value had a negative impact. Analyzing the tax effort, we find that Morocco had a negative effort between 1990 and 2004. But, since 2005, the policies pursued after the reform helped reverse the trend to achieve a positive effort. It means that Morocco exploits all his fiscal resources from the standard of the sample.

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  • Nezha BOUSSELHAMI & Moustapha HAMZAOUI, 2018. "Moroccan tax potential: Econometric analysis through the tax effort," Turkish Economic Review, KSP Journals, vol. 5(1), pages 22-32, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:ksp:journ2:v:5:y:2018:i:1:p:22-32
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    Keywords

    Tax burden; Tax potential; Tax effort; Structural factors; Panel.;
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    JEL classification:

    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
    • C50 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - General

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