Modelling Indirect Tax Reform in Australia: Should Tax Rates Be Uniform?

John Creedy

No 686, Department of Economics - Working Papers Series from The University of Melbourne

Abstract: This paper examines the question of whether indirect tax rates should be uniform using four different modelling strategies. First, marginal tax reform is examined. Second, the welfare effects of a partial shift from the current indirect tax system in Australia towards a goods and services tax (GST) are considered, with particular emphasis on differences between household types and the role of exemptions. The third approach examines the extent of horizontal inequity and reranking that can arise when there are non-uniform tax rates. Fourth, in view of the stress on a distributional role for exemptions of certain goods from a GST, the potential limits to such redistribution are considered.

Keywords: TAXES; TAX REFORMS; AUSTRALIA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H20 H21 H30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 1999
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