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International Tax Reviews and New Zealand’s Tax Working Group: What can we learn? Professor Alan Auerbach
Professor of Economics and Law at the University of California, Berkeley, 2013 Robin Oliver Scholarship Visiting Lecturer in Tax Policy
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International Tax Reviews and New Zealand’s TWG: What Can We Learn?
Alan J. Auerbach University of California, Berkeley March 2013
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Composition and Scope
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Tax Structure versus Tax Revenues
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Tax Structure versus Tax Revenues
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Objectives of Tax Reform
SLIDE 8 Mirrlees
- 1. Distributional fairness (i.e., progressivity)
- 2. Efficiency
- 3. Minimize administrative & compliance costs
- 4. Fairness (procedural; lack of arbitrariness)
- 5. Transparency
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- 1. Equity (horizontal and vertical)
- 2. Efficiency
- 3. Simplicity
- 4. Sustainability
- 5. Policy consistency
SLIDE 10 TWG
- 1. Efficiency and growth
- 2. Equity and fairness
- 3. Revenue integrity
- 4. Fiscal cost
- 5. Minimize compliance and administrative cost
- 6. Coherence
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Objectives of Tax Reform
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Choice of Tax Base: Capital Income, Labor Income, Consumption
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Corporate Taxation
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Corporate Taxation: Alignment
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Corporate Taxation: International
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Wealth Transfer Taxes
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Taxing Economic Rents
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Low Income Benefits
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Low Income Benefits
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Environmental Taxation
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Reform of Institutions
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Implications for New Zealand
SLIDE 27 Welcom e to Victoria Business School
International Tax Reviews and New Zealand’s Tax Working Group: What can we learn? Professor Alan Auerbach
Professor of Economics and Law at the University of California, Berkeley, 2013 Robin Oliver Scholarship Visiting Lecturer in Tax Policy