From Revenue to Value Added Taxes: Welfare and Fiscal Efficiency Effects in Brazil.

This paper presents an evaluation of the economic impacts from the taxation reform of PIS/PASEP and COFINS that started to be collected by two regimes (cumulative and non-cumulative) associated to domestic flows and to levy imports. The evaluation made with a computable general equilibrium model ada...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Cury, Samir, Mori Coelho, Allexandro
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:Brasil
Institución:Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Repositorio:Revista Brasileira de Economia (Online)
Idioma:portugués
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OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/991
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.fgv.br/rbe/article/view/991
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Taxation reform
Fiscal policy
PIS/PASEP and COFINS
Computable general equilibrium
Welfare.
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Sumario:This paper presents an evaluation of the economic impacts from the taxation reform of PIS/PASEP and COFINS that started to be collected by two regimes (cumulative and non-cumulative) associated to domestic flows and to levy imports. The evaluation made with a computable general equilibrium model adapted to new fiscal system characteristics indicates that the effects of this reform would have deteriorated macroeconomic, labor market and welfare indicators.