Brazil: Tax Expenditure Rationalization Within Broader Tax Reform

Author: Coelho Maria Delgado

Volume/Issue: Volume 2021 Issue 240

Publication date: September 2021

ISBN: 9781513596624

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Economics- Macroeconomics , Taxation - General , Economics / General , rationalization experience , Labor tax wedge , sequenced tax reform , cost of capital , zero rating , tax relief , single tax , Tax expenditures , Corporate income tax , Tax incentives , Personal income tax , Social security contributions , Global

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Summary

The excessive complexity and burden of the Brazilian tax system, riddled by cumulative indirect taxes and heavy payroll contributions, have led to an accumulation of fiscal incentives aimed at reducing its burden on taxpayers and productive activities. Federal and subnational tax expenditures currently stand at over 5 percent of GDP. Rationalizing them can only be comprehensively feasible in the context of a broader sequenced tax reform, and could reduce resource misallocation and income inequality, as well as provide new revenues.