Retarding Short-Term Capital Inflows Through withholding Tax

February 1, 2000

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Howell H Zee. Retarding Short-Term Capital Inflows Through withholding Tax, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed December 24, 2024

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Summary

This paper proposes a price-based measure to mitigate the destabilizing impact of the volatility of global capital movements on the domestic economy of a country pursuing sound economic policies. The measure is a withholding tax on all private capital inflows, with a credit and refund provision that operates within the administrative framework of the existing domestic tax system to relieve noncapital inflows from the tax. This withholding tax, which is substantially more difficult to evade than the much-discussed alternative of imposing non-remunerated reserve requirements, can be implemented with little additional costs to the taxpayers and the tax authorities.

Subject: Balance of payments, Capital flows, Capital inflows, Financial transaction tax, Income and capital gains taxes, National accounts, Personal income, Taxes

Keywords: Capital flows, Capital inflows, Capital movements, CBCT credit, CBCT refund, File tax, Financial transaction tax, Financial transactions tax, Global, Income, Income and capital gains taxes, Personal income, Refund provision, Tax, Tax authorities, Tax net, The CBCT, Tobin tax, Withholding tax, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

13
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2000/040
Stock No:

WPIEA0402000
ISBN:

9781451845969
ISSN:

1018-5941

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