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Brazil: Tax Expenditure Rationalization Within Broader Tax Reform

By Maria Delgado Coelho

September 24, 2021

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Maria Delgado Coelho. Brazil: Tax Expenditure Rationalization Within Broader Tax Reform, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2021) accessed November 8, 2024

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Summary

The excessive complexity and burden of the Brazilian tax system, riddled by cumulative indirect taxes and heavy payroll contributions, have led to an accumulation of fiscal incentives aimed at reducing its burden on taxpayers and productive activities. Federal and subnational tax expenditures currently stand at over 5 percent of GDP. Rationalizing them can only be comprehensively feasible in the context of a broader sequenced tax reform, and could reduce resource misallocation and income inequality, as well as provide new revenues.

Subject: Corporate income tax, Personal income tax, Public financial management (PFM), Social security contributions, Tax expenditures, Tax incentives, Taxes

Keywords: Corporate income tax, Cost of capital, Global, Labor tax wedge, Personal income tax, Rationalization experience, Sequenced tax reform, Single tax, Social security contributions, Tax expenditures, Tax incentives, Tax relief, Zero rating

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    46

  • Volume:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2021/240

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2021240

  • ISBN:

    9781513596624

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941