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On the Poverty and Equity Implications of a Rise in the Value Added Tax

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  • Nisreen Salti
  • Jad Chaaban

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This paper examines the impact of a rise in the Value Added Tax (VAT) on poverty and inequality in Lebanon. The paper develops an empirical model based on consumer demand theory and uses only household survey data on expenditures and spatial price indexes. The simulation results, using own and cross price demand elasticities estimated with an Almost Ideal Demand System, show that the proposed VAT rate increases will have a non-negligible impact on poverty and inequality in Lebanon, despite current VAT exemptions.

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  • Nisreen Salti & Jad Chaaban, 2010. "On the Poverty and Equity Implications of a Rise in the Value Added Tax," Middle East Development Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 2(1), pages 121-138, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmdjxx:v:2:y:2010:i:1:p:121-138
    DOI: 10.1142/S1793812010000174
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    3. Javier García-Enríquez & Cruz A. Echevarría, 2016. "Consistent Estimation of a Censored Demand System and Welfare Analysis: The 2012 VAT Reform in Spain," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 67(2), pages 324-347, June.
    4. Warwick, Ross & Harris, Tom & Phillips, David & Goldman, Maya & Jellema, Jon & Inchauste, Gabriela & Goraus-Tańska, Karolina, 2022. "The redistributive power of cash transfers vs VAT exemptions: A multi-country study," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 151(C).
    5. Adham Sayed, 2020. "Income Inequality and Public Debt: What Can Be Learned from the Lebanese Indebtedness?," Business and Economic Research, Macrothink Institute, vol. 10(4), pages 83-106, December.
    6. Makdissi Paul & Seif Edine Mohamad, 2020. "Is the Elimination of Food Subsidies the Right Policy to Address Lebanon’s Public Finance Crisis?," Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, De Gruyter, vol. 16(2), pages 1-17, August.
    7. Zsombor Cseres-Gergely & Gyorgy Molnar & Tibor Szabo, 2017. "Expenditure responses, policy interventions and heterogeneous welfare effects in Hungary during the 2000s," CERS-IE WORKING PAPERS 1704, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies.

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