SAMOD, a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model: Recent developments

Gemma Wright, Michael Noble, Helen Barnes, David McLennan and Michell Mpike

No wp-2016-115, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper provides an account of a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model—SAMOD—which has been developed for use by government over the past ten years. The two datasets that underpin the current version of SAMOD are introduced, and the model's tax and benefit policies are described with discussion of the various data challenges and assumptions that had to be made in order to simulate them, with particular emphasis on the value-added tax policy. Simulations using the two different underpinning datasets are compared with reported administrative data.

Keywords: Economic policy; Income tax; Taxation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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