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An assessment of presumptive tax in Uganda: Evaluating the 2020 reform and four alternative reform scenarios using UGAMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for UgandaPresumptive tax, a final tax on business income, was introduced in Uganda in 1997. The latest reform to the regime in July 2020 sought to make the system more progressive, simpler, and fairer to small firms...
presumptive tax Tax administration Small businessPolicy Brief
Social protection, government revenue and microsimulation in developing countriesSocial protection has attracted increasing interest in developing countries in recent decades and policies have been initiated in all developing regions...
SOUTHMOD Microsimulation modelling Tax-benefit microsimulationJournal Special Issue
SOUTHMOD: Modelling Tax-benefit Systems in Developing CountriesSocial protection has attracted increasing interest in developing countries in recent decades and policies have been initiated in all developing regions...
SOUTHMOD Microsimulation modelling Tax-benefit microsimulationWorking Paper
Income redistribution in Latin America: A microsimulation approachWe analyse the effect of taxes and benefits on income distribution of six Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Venezuela...
Taxes Benefits Microsimulation modellingNews
Government officials and researchers in Ecuador gather for ECUAMOD trainingHow does raising income tax affect government revenue? What are the costs and benefits of implementing a state pension? Tax and benefit microsimulation is a useful technique for determining how policy changes affect the distribution of income and...
Microsimulation modelling EcuadorWorking Paper
Updating NAMOD: A Namibian tax-benefit microsimulation modelThis paper provides an account of a Nambian tax-benefit microsimulation model—NAMOD—which has been developed for use by government...
Microsimulation modelling Tax benefits South AfricaProject workshop
Training course for SOUTHMOD model buildingUNU-WIDER arranged a training course on building tax-benefit microsimulation models for researchers and data experts engaged in the new SOUTHMOD - Simulating tax and benefit policies for development project that aims to build new microsimulation...
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Building African capacity for policy simulationTheme: 1985-97
With the introduction of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), governments in Africa and other developing countries have been under great pressure to devise effective policies that will reduce poverty and...
Globalization Social and Human Development Africa