Simulating the impact of inflation on the progressivity of personal income tax in Brazil

Income tax reform in Brazil has mainly stressed changes in rates, aiming at increasing its progressivity. One aspect frequently overlooked is that, in the absence of adjustments of the tax rules to inflation, the level and distribution of the income tax burden can be substantially affected. We use a...

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Main Authors: Horacio Levy, José Ricardo Nogueira, Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira, Herwig Immervoll, Cathal O'Donoghue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Getúlio Vargas 2010-12-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Economia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71402010000400004&lng=en&tlng=en