Progressive taxation of extractive resources as second-best optimal policy /

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Author / Creator:	Wen, Jean-François, author.
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Description:	1 online resource (32 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	IMF working paper ; WP/18/130 IMF working paper ; WP/18/130.
Subject:	Minerals industry -- Taxation. Petroleum -- Taxation. Mines and mineral resources -- Taxation. Mineral industries -- Economic aspects. Petroleum industry and trade -- Economic aspects. Mineral industries -- Economic aspects. Mines and mineral resources -- Taxation. Petroleum industry and trade -- Economic aspects. Petroleum -- Taxation. Business Taxes And Subsidies. Efficiency. General. All Countries. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12508187

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Other authors / contributors:	International Monetary Fund, publisher.
ISBN:	9781484363140 1484363140 1484361628 9781484361627 9781484361627
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Summary:	The paper provides a critical review of the literature on the concept of progressivity in the taxation of petroleum and mineral resources and offers a fresh perspective on its purpose and measurement. Regressive taxes, such as royalties, exist to satisfy policy objectives other than revenue maximization, such as achieving early revenues, while rent-based or profit-sensitive fiscal instruments must be designed with progressive marginal rates to maximize government revenues. Hence, the emphasis should be placed on tax rate progression of the direct taxation of profit or rent, rather than progressivity in the overall government take. However, as regressive taxes, by their very nature, tend to be distortionary, the optimal degree of progression in the rent- or profit-tax rates must take these distortions into account. The central ideas are illustrated with a simple analytical model in which a second-best optimal tax rate schedule on profit is characterized in the presence of the tax distortions caused by the regressive taxes. Some practical implications of the analysis are discussed.
Other form:	Print version: Wen, Jean-François. Progressive Taxation of Extractive Resources As Second-Best Optimal Policy. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, ©2018 9781484361627
Standard no.:	10.5089/9781484361627.001

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