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Business and sustainable development. Accountability. Tax. Feminist test case. Media: Tom Gardner at Slater & Gordon 0207 657 1690 press@slatergordon.co.uk

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    1. Justin Sandefur‏ @JustinSandefur 25 May 2018
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      Justin Sandefur Retweeted Vox

      Our piece on the Commitment to Equity project is now on Vox:https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/999656272298463232 …

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      Bizarrely, tax and spending policies in parts of the developing world actually increase poverty. https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/5/24/17378148/extreme-poverty-developing-world-taxes-transfers?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter …
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    2. Justin Sandefur‏ @JustinSandefur 25 May 2018
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      I respect internet users' God-given right to post clever reaction GIFs without reading the actual article. See replies to the Vox tweet. (Ron Paul!) But for the small % of folks who care, one important clarification:

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    3. Justin Sandefur‏ @JustinSandefur 25 May 2018
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      1. Fiscal policy may enrich or impoverish an economy in the medium to long term. Call these dynamic growth effects. 2. Fiscal policy definitely redistributes money in the short term. Call these static incidence effects. We are *only* talking about (2) here.

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    4. Andrew Norton‏ @andynortondev 25 May 2018
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      Did read it - great piece. You outline that VAT is preferred IMF solution coz, although regressive, works in highly informalised economy. What are the progressive equivalents that can work at scale? Land? Property? Not usually considered big revenue generators in rich countries?

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    5. Justin Sandefur‏ @JustinSandefur 25 May 2018
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      Good question. I don't have a full-fledged tax agenda here. Since we keep using the Tanzania example though, I'd be curious what @oddfjeldstad thinks -- ie what is the most viable, progressive tax lever feasible at present?

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    6. Andrew Norton‏ @andynortondev 25 May 2018
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      Replying to @JustinSandefur @oddfjeldstad

      Interested to see @MForstater's view in 280 characters too....

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      Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater 10 Jun 2018
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      Replying to @andynortondev @JustinSandefur @oddfjeldstad

      As Richard Bird said back in 2005 (paraphrasing) Progressive taxation in developing countries is really hard . https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=804704&download=yes … I am not sure that the dilemmas that Richard sets out have changed

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        1. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater 10 Jun 2018
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          Replying to @MForstater @andynortondev and

          My take away from @noralustig & cos. work is not that progressive taxation has not been tried, but that even progressive tax systems (combined w insufficient transfers) can make significant numbers of people at the bottom of the income scale worse off.

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        2. Maya Forstater‏ @MForstater 10 Jun 2018
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          e.g. the story from the CEQ Tanzania paper is that the tax system overall is progressive. The VAT is moderately progressive. Only kerosene tax & tobacco tax are regressive. http://www.commitmentoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/CEQ-WP36-Fiscal-Incidence-in-Tanzania-3-Jan-16-2016.pdf ….... but still it increases number of people below $1.25 by 20%

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