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In Europe, efficiency would be enhanced by a unified VAT rate, instead of creating distortions by charging different rates for different goods.
Raising funds by taxing negative externalities reduces distortions rather than creating them.
On the revenue front, Brazil should replace the current state-level value-added tax (VAT), which is riddled with major distortions, and the federal cascading turnover taxes with a modern dual (federal and state) consumption-type VAT, with a common base and a very small number of rates.
That is a pity, because economists’ understanding of the substantive issues, professional obsession with incentives, and attention to unanticipated consequences give them a natural advantage in designing institutional arrangements to further the objectives in question while minimizing behavioral distortions.
If ideas are like weapons in lobbying, it is important to appreciate the possible distortions in the market for their creation and diffusion.
Distortions will begin to unwind.
Behind this shortcoming lay various institutional and market distortions associated with industrial and other modern-sector activities in low-income environments.
Yet demographic factors are often neglected in economic reporting, leading to significant distortions in assessments of countries’ performance.
China has proved its capacity to implement radical reforms that eliminate major distortions, thereby boosting growth and absorbing excess debt.
Once key distortions are eliminated and resources – including labor, capital, and talent – are being allocated more efficiently, China will be able to continue its march toward high-income status.
This implies, among other things, a fair tax system that is more progressive and eliminates the distortions and loopholes that allow speculators to pay taxes at a lower effective rate than those who work for a living, and that enable the rich to use the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share.
The main reason why governments are leery of intervening in wage setting is the memory of the failed wage and price controls during the period of high inflation in the 1970s – controls that gave rise to large and troublesome distortions.
Raging inflation causes all kinds of distortions and inefficiencies.
Equally worrisome are the distortions that easy money creates.
In fact, the rising cost of intermediation – largely a result of the distortions in China’s financial system – is among the most important factors driving the rise in borrowing costs for Chinese businesses.
But let’s accept, for the sake of argument, that the United States economy is operating well within its production possibility frontier, owing to various tax and other inefficiencies, and that eliminating or significantly reducing such distortions could significantly boost growth.
Macro-prudential policies are not a substitute for sound macroeconomic policies; nonetheless, they are essential to preventing large asset bubbles and distortions in financial markets, and thus to reducing the risk of adverse shocks to both markets and the real economy.
But central banks accept that their policies have led to distortions in financial markets.
Even with a balanced budget, there is still the issue of the effectiveness and efficiency of spending, as each dollar of government revenue costs the economy about $1.30, given the distortions to private decisions caused by taxes.
The illicit revenues generated from market distortions and fishy subsidies to the rich are abolished with market reforms.
If countries began to define energy security as energy independence and try to supply all their own needs, the result could be expensive overcapacity, massive price distortions, slower technological progress, and weaker economic growth.
Alongside its myriad distortions and inadequacies there were nevertheless institutions and regulations that sought to decrease the social disadvantages of women.
That means, in part, reforming a tax system that is widely perceived to be a source of inefficiencies and distortions that penalize domestic production.
Across China’s government, a quiet but resolute commitment to fostering a new growth model that corrects the distortions created by decades of double-digit growth – including corruption, pollution, rising inequality, and other structural imbalances – is taking root.
Rather than relying mainly on income taxation, as in the US, the Nordic countries rely on value-added taxation, which provides a relatively high amount of revenue with relatively low rates of evasion and few distortions to the economy.
A multilayered and complex chronicle of the devastating tragedies of the twentieth century, Blinding is an insistent, informed, and irreplaceable incursion into the moving landscape of the human soul, its wounds and voids, its vitality and versatility, its deep distortions and its unpredictable dynamics.
Public infrastructure investments displace private investments and the taxes necessary to finance them introduce further distortions in demand.
For example, some scientists are searching for evidence of quantum fluctuations of space-time that could blur images of distant stars or lead to systematic distortions.
Given the protections afforded to acquired rights, the process of rooting out economic distortions and restoring Brazil’s finances to a stable equilibrium will require a lengthy process of constitutional reform.
By contrast, the multilateral approach appeals to most economists, because it stresses the balance-of-payments distortions that arise from mismatches between saving and investment.
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