Research note: Illustrating the distributional implications of measures from the 2016 budget for Malta

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This paper examines the main measures as announced in the 2016 Budget for Malta and their redistributive impact. The measures considered include the minimum pension measure, the in-work benefit and the income tax measure. EUROMOD, a tax-benefit micro-simulation model was used to simulate these measures and arrive at the results by looking at deciles of equivalised household disposable incomes. The overall result shows that the combined effect of these measures, redistribute income from higher to lower and middle income groups whilst lowering the at-risk-of-poverty rate. Whilst the retirement pension benefitted the bottom three decile groups, the income tax reform benefitted mostly the fourth, fifth and sixth decile groups. The in-work benefit, which was an extension of an existing benefit, mostly affected the lower income groups.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: EUROMOD Working Paper ; No. EM12/16

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes ; National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
• Thema: EUROMOD ; budgetary impact ; income redistribution

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bugeja, Simon ; Mifsud, Godwin ; Saliba, Pauline
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (wo): Colchester
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/197598
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ