Helping countries improve their tax systems
Summary of the impact
Research at LSE by Henrik Kleven and colleagues has significantly improved the design of tax policy and tax enforcement in countries as different as Pakistan and Denmark. These policy impacts can be summarised as follows:
1. A project by Kleven and Waseem (2013, Quarterly Journal of Economics) became the blueprint for a major income tax reform in Pakistan in July 2012.
2. A project by Kleven and colleagues (2009, Econometrica) led to reform of the tax treatment of married couples in Denmark in 2010.
3. A project by Kleven and colleagues (2011, Econometrica) led to a significant change in the enforcement of capital gains taxation in Denmark in 2010.
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