tax revenues Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/tax-revenues/ Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Wed, 08 Mar 2023 08:58:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://en.irefeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/04/IREF-LinkedIn-Profile-DarkBlue-scaled.png tax revenues Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/tax-revenues/ 32 32 Why not tax capital gains more heavily? Because it is both economically inefficient and unfair https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/why-not-tax-capital-gains-more-heavily-because-it-is-both-economically-inefficient-and-unfair/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-not-tax-capital-gains-more-heavily-because-it-is-both-economically-inefficient-and-unfair https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/why-not-tax-capital-gains-more-heavily-because-it-is-both-economically-inefficient-and-unfair/#respond Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:53:36 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/other-publications/news/why-not-tax-capital-gains-more-heavily-because-it-is-both-economically-inefficient-and-unfair/ While governments are tempted to raise taxes on capital gain in order to reduce their public deficits, the study realized by the London based Adam Smith Institute explains why the temptation should be resisted. Based on clear economic reasoning and on evidence from the US, Australia and Canada, they show that there is a Laffer curve effect at work; one that is probably stronger than in the case of personal income tax. In other words: higher capital gains tax rates are very likely to give lower tax revenues.

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/why-not-tax-capital-gains-more-heavily-because-it-is-both-economically-inefficient-and-unfair/feed/ 0 Incentives matter https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/incentives-matter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=incentives-matter https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/article/incentives-matter/#respond Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:51:08 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/online-articles/incentives-matter/ Question: Mr. President announces that, starting in 2011, there will be a sharp increase in tax rates. What do you think individuals and businesses will do in 2010? Using basic economics, Arthur Laffer in a Wall Street Journal article dated June 6 gives us a very plausible scenario: Individuals and businesses will do their best to transform the wealth and income to be taxed in 2011 into wealth and income to be taxed in 2010.

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