Coordinating tariff reduction and domestic tax reform |
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Authors: | Michael Keen Jenny E. Ligthart |
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Affiliation: | a Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund, Washington DC 20431, USA b University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Essex CO4 3SQ, UK |
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Abstract: | A key obstacle to fundamental tariff reform in many countries is the revenue loss that it ultimately implies. This paper establishes and explores a simple and practicable strategy for realizing the efficiency gains from tariff reform without reducing public revenue, showing that for a small economy a cut in import duties (respectively, export taxes) combined with a point-for-point increase in domestic consumption taxes (production taxes) increases both welfare and public revenue. Increasingly stringent conditions are required, however, to ensure unambiguously beneficial outcomes from this reform strategy when allowance is made for such important features of reality as non-tradeable final goods and tradeable intermediate inputs. |
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Keywords: | Tariff reform Tax reform Intermediate inputs Imperfect competition |
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