Nordic Tax Policy Towards the Year 2000 and Beyond

Peter Birch Sørensen

Chapter 5 in Tax Policy in the Nordic Countries, 1998, pp 204-229 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The Nordic tax reforms of the early 1990s were very much a product of the ‘supply-side-oriented’ economic policy paradigm developing in most OECD countries during the 1980s. Compared to the 1960s and 1970s, governments in the 1980s tended to put less emphasis on macroeconomic demand management and more emphasis on ‘structural’ policies as a means of improving economic performance. There was also a clear tendency for policy-makers to become more concerned about the disincentive effects of traditional welfare state policies, and a tendency to downgrade the conventional goal of redistributing income via the public budget.

Keywords: Consumer Service; Lifetime Income; Social Insurance System; Hourly Wage Rate; Social Insurance Benefit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-13822-7_5

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