Distortionary Taxation and the Debt Laffer Curve

This paper highlights the importance of the role of the domestic tax system in determining the economic consequences of an external debt overhang. A simple taxation scheme is specified and it is shown that a country can be on the “wrong side” of its debt Laffer curve only if it is on the wrong side...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Husain, Aasim
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 1992
Series:IMF Working Papers
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02103nmm a2200469 u 4500
001 EB000924821
003 EBX01000000000000000718417
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 150128 ||| eng
020 |a 9781451926545 
100 1 |a Husain, Aasim 
245 0 0 |a Distortionary Taxation and the Debt Laffer Curve  |c Aasim Husain 
260 |a Washington, D.C.  |b International Monetary Fund  |c 1992 
300 |a 24 pages 
653 |a Finance 
653 |a Debt reduction 
653 |a Public finance & taxation 
653 |a Debt Management 
653 |a Long-term Capital Movements 
653 |a Debt 
653 |a Exports and Imports 
653 |a International economics 
653 |a International Lending and Debt Problems 
653 |a Debts, External 
653 |a Sovereign Debt 
653 |a Debt burden 
653 |a Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General 
653 |a Tax administration and procedure 
653 |a Capital outflows 
653 |a Capital movements 
653 |a Tax distortions 
653 |a Financial Risk Management 
653 |a Taxation 
653 |a International Investment 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b IMF  |a International Monetary Fund 
490 0 |a IMF Working Papers 
028 5 0 |a 10.5089/9781451926545.001 
856 4 0 |u https://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1992/010/001.1992.issue-010-en.xml?cid=759-com-dsp-marc  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 330 
520 |a This paper highlights the importance of the role of the domestic tax system in determining the economic consequences of an external debt overhang. A simple taxation scheme is specified and it is shown that a country can be on the “wrong side” of its debt Laffer curve only if it is on the wrong side of its tax Laffer curve. The analysis indicates that fairly strong, and probably unrealistic, assumptions about the domestic tax system are needed to argue that the investment disincentives associated with the debt overhang are large enough to place a country on the wrong side of its debt Laffer curve