Revenue Mobilization and Inequality in Senegal

From the IMF’s latest report on Senegal:

“This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic and distributional impacts of fiscal consolidation in Senegal through value added tax (VAT), personal income tax (PIT), and corporate income tax (CIT). We analyze the trade-offs between growth and equity for each tax instrument. We find that VAT has the least efficiency cost in output and consumption but expands the rural-urban inequality gap because significant VAT tax incidence falls on the rural area. PIT is the most detrimental in terms of growth and inequality. CIT on the other hand, despite causing large efficiency loss, has better distributional implications by distributing the tax burden more evenly across regions. Much of the output and distributional costs can be mitigated by using the additional revenue for infrastructure investment and cash transfer.”

 

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Labels: Inclusive Growth

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