Tax and Welfare Reform in Greece1
Tax and Welfare Reform in Greece1
A well-designed tax and welfare benefit system, which minimizes distortions while raising the required revenue and providing suitable social insurance, is a key component of an advanced economy. This chapter describes the current Greek tax system and proposes three simpler alternatives, which perform well in their implied incentives, are budget neutral, and achieve better social insurance and redistribution. It provides static simulations of these systems, demonstrating the resulting income distribution, and discusses the implied incentives. It also emphasizes the importance of evaluating such systems with actual microeconomic data, a process that should be a standard tool of policy making.
Keywords: welfare benefit system, Greek tax system, social insurance, income distribution, microeconomic data, policy making
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