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A Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model for Personal Income Taxation in Italy

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  • Elena Miola

    (Ministry of Economy and Finance)

  • Marco Manzo

    (Ministry of Economy and Finance)

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The paper presents a static tax-benefit microsimulation model developed by combining the IT-SILC 2016 dataset, a survey on Italian incomes and living conditions, and administrative tax return micro data in the same year. The dataset derives from the exact matching of survey and administrative data. The microsimulation model reproduces in detail the features of Italian personal income tax and benefit system and is aimed at evaluating tax revenue and fiscal policies distributive impact. Redistribution analysis is carried out by using concentration, progressivity and redistribution indices for individual taxpayers and equivalent households. Inequality issues are analysed further through the computation of decile and quintile distribution of household gross and disposable income, by using the tax-benefit microsimulation model.

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  • Elena Miola & Marco Manzo, 2021. "A Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model for Personal Income Taxation in Italy," Working Papers wp2021-10, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Department of Finance.
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    Keywords

    tax-benefit microsimulation model; personal income taxation; redistribution; inequality;
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    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
    • H24 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies

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