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New Europe, new frontiers, new opportunities, new challenges

28-Mar-2006

Donald J. Johnston, Secretary-General of the OECD

In this speech delivered at the European Banking and Financial Forum in Prague, the OECD's Secretary-General says that in order to represent an economic force greater than the US, and help move multilateralism ...

Welfare Reform in European Countries (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper No. 28)

30-Sep-2005

Herwig Immervoll, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Claus Thustrup Kreiner and Emmanuel Saez

This paper estimates the welfare and distributional impact of two types of welfare reform in the 15 (pre-enlargement) member countries of the European Union. The reforms are revenue neutral and financed by an overall and uniform increase in marginal tax rates on earnings.

Average and Marginal Effective Tax Rates Facing Workers in the EU. A Micro-Level Analysis of Levels, Distributions and Driving Factors (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 19)

09-Dec-2004

Herwig Immervoll

Macro-based effective tax rate (ETR) measures do not provide information on the level or distribution of marginal effective tax rates thought to influence household behaviour. They also do not capture differences in average ETRs facing different population sub-groups. 

Factblog: Tax Wedges

Compare countries' taxes on wages

Tax Co-operation 2010: Towards a Level Playing Field

Assessment by the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information

Peer Reviews

Peer Review Reports

Implementing the Tax Transparency Standards

A Handbook for Assessors and Jurisdictions

Tax and the crisis

Fighting tax evasion

Comment on the OECD's tax work

Discussion Drafts

www.itdweb.org

A joint initiative by the OECD, IMF and World Bank to facilitate discussion on tax matters

International Tax Dialogue