Iowa Tax Expenditures Report 2000

Exemptions, exclusions, credits against tax and reductions in tax base that are tied to specific provisions in tax law; estimation of the annual dollar effect for each of those provisions. Phase 1 Report including Corporate Income, Individual Income, Sales Tax Use Tax.

Iowa Tax Expenditures Report 2005

Exemptions, exclusions, credits against tax and reductions in tax base that are tied to specific provisions in tax law; estimation of the annual dollar effect for each of those provisions.

Public Attitudes Toward Social Spending in the United States: The Differences Between Direct Spending and Tax Expenditures

This paper uses a survey experiment to examine differences in public attitudes toward 'direct' and 'indirect' government spending. Federal social welfare spending in the USA has two components: the federal government spends money to directly provide social benefits to citizens, and also indirectly subsidizes the private provision of social benefits through tax expenditures. Though benefits provided through tax expenditures are considered spending for budgetary purposes, they differ from direct spending in several ways: in the mechanisms through which benefits are delivered to citizens, in how they distribute wealth across the income spectrum, and in the visibility of their policy consequences to the mass public. We develop and test a model explaining how these differences will affect public attitudes toward spending conducted through direct and indirect means. We find that support for otherwise identical social programs is generally higher when such programs are portrayed as being delivered through tax expenditures than when they are portrayed as being delivered by direct spending. In addition, support for tax expenditure programs which redistribute wealth upward drops when citizens are provided information about the redistributive effects. Both of these results are conditioned by partisanship, with the opinions of Republicans more sensitive to the mechanism through which benefits are delivered, and the opinions of Democrats more sensitive to information about their redistributive effects.

Tax policy in Latin America: Assessment and guidelines for a second generation of reforms

Includes bibliography

Tax expenditure report.

Title from cover.

Tax reform proposals. hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, June 27, 1985.

Shipping list no. 86-195-P.

O comportamento da renúncia fiscal oriunda dos gastos privados com atenção à saúde entre os anos 1996 e 2003

This article presents an economic approach trying to get the interrelations between the private expenditures on health care and the tax expenditures. It shows an overview of the family's expenses on health care confronted to the total of the same item declared to Secretaria da Receita Federal (Income Tax) that was converted into tax expenditures.

Renúncia de receita tributária: o caso do estado do Pará

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar o instituto da renúncia de receita tributária. A prática de conceder benefícios fiscais que importem em renúncia de receita é consagrada internacionalmente para auxiliar o desenvolvimento de segmentos econômicos estratégicos, regiões desfavorecidas e grupos de contribuintes, mas não deve ocorrer de forma indiscriminada, pois pode afetar o equilíbrio das contas públicas. É nesse pressuposto que se baseia a doutrina do tax expenditure ou, como chamamos no Brasil, gasto tributário, que equipara, para fins exclusivamente orçamentários, as perdas de arrecadação decorrentes de renúncias aos gastos governamentais. No âmbito nacional, a preocupação com a quantificação e controle sobre os gastos tributários encontra assento na Constituição Federal de 1988, que determina em seu art. 165, § 6º, que o projeto de lei orçamentária será acompanhado de demonstrativo regionalizado do efeito das receitas renunciadas. A temática da renúncia de receita ganhou maior notoriedade com o advento da Lei Complementar nº 101, de 04 de maio de 2000, chamada de Lei de Responsabilidade Fiscal, que estabelece normas de finanças públicas voltadas para a responsabilidade na gestão fiscal; adota o conceito internacionalmente consagrado de renúncia de receita como gasto tributário e impõe diretrizes rigorosas para a concessão de benefícios tributários que acarretem renúncia de receita; e incorpora aos instrumentos de planejamento orçamentário os efeitos financeiros das renúncias de receita. Além dos requisitos constantes na Lei de Responsabilidade Fiscal e da observância do disposto no art. 165 da Constituição Federal, a concessão de exonerações tributárias deve sempre se coadunar com a promoção do bem-estar social, ou seja, para a concessão ou ampliação de incentivos tributários que importem em renúncia de receita é necessário que haja um interesse público justificador do ato, que confira legitimidade à renúncia. Além da abordagem teórica do instituto em questão, a presente pesquisa destina-se a verificar, no caso concreto, a utilização que o Estado do Pará faz desse instituto.

Administration's fiscal year 1984 budget proposals--II : hearings before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, June 15, 16, 22, 23, 28 and 29, 1983.

Item 1038-A, 1038-B (microfiche)

O acesso à habitação no Brasil em tempos de capitalismo financeirizado : uma análise do Programa Minha Casa, Minha Vida

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Humanas, Departamento de Serviço Social, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Política Social, 2016.

Changes in the demand for private medical insurance following a shift in tax incentives

The 1998 Spanish reform of the Personal Income Tax eliminated the 15% deduction for private medical expenditures including payments on private health insurance (PHI) policies. To avoid an undesirable increase in the demand for publicly funded health care, tax incentives to buy PHI were not completely removed but basically shifted from individual to group employer-paid policies. In a unique fiscal experiment, at the same time that the tax relief for individually purchased policies was abolished, the government provided for tax allowances on policies taken out through employment. Using a bivariate probit model on data from National Health Surveys, we estimate the impact of said reform on the demand for PHI and the changes occurred within it. Our findings suggest that the total probability of buying PHI was not significantly affected. Indeed, the fall in the demand for individual policies (by 10% between 1997 and 2001) was offset by an increase in the demand for group employer-paid ones, so that the overall size of the market remained virtually unchanged. We also briefly discuss the welfare effects on the state budget, the industry and society at large.

Are tax subsidies for private medical insurance self-financing? Evidence from a microsimulation model for outpatient and inpatient episodes

This paper analyses whether or not tax subsidies to private medicalinsurance are self-financing by means of a structural approach. Weconstruct a simulation routine based on a microeconometric discretechoice model that allows us to evaluate the impact of premium changeson the utilisation of outpatient and inpatient health care services. Wesimulate the 1999 Spanish tax reform that abolished the tax deductionfor expenditures on private health insurance using a representativesample of the Catalan population. Prior to this reform, foregone taxrevenue arising from deductions after the purchase of private insuranceamounted to 69.2 M. per year. In contrast, the elimination of thesubsidies to private policies is estimated to generate an extra costfor the public sector of about 8.9 M. per year.

A note on policy, the composition of public expenditures and economic growth

In this article we study the growth and welfare effects of fiscal and monetary policies in economies where public investment is part of the productive process we present four different models that share the same technology with public infrastructure as a separate argument of the production function. We show that growth is maximized at positive levels of income tax and inflation. However, unless there are no transfers or public goods in the economy, maximization of growth does not imply welfare maximization we show that the optimal tax rate is greater than the rate that maximizes growth and the optimal rate of money creation is below the growth maximizing rate. With public infrastructure in the production function we no longer obtain superneutrality in the Sidrausky model.

Public expenditures taxation and welfare measurement

this article addresses the welfare and macroeconomics effects of fiscal policy in a frarnework where govemment chooses tax rates and the distribution of revenues between consumption and investment. We construct and simulate a model where public consumption affects individuaIs' utility and public capital is an argument of the production function. The simulations suggest that by simply reallocating expenditures from consumption to investment, the govemment can increase the equilibrium leveIs of capital stock, hours worked, output and labor productivity. Funhennore, we 'show that the magnitude and direction of the long run impact of fiscal policy depends on the size of the elasticity of output to public capital. If this parameter is high enough, it may be the case that capital stock, within limits, increases with tax rates.