Constraints on the executive and tax revenues in the long run

Arbeitspapier

We argue that tax revenues and political institutions placing constraints on the executive power may reinforce each other over time and so co-evolve in the long run. This may also bring a shift in the composition of revenues, from taxes levied on a narrow base to broadly levied taxes. To test these hypotheses, we use historical cross-country data covering 31 countries for 1800- 2012 and panel time series methods allowing for different forms of country-specific heterogeneity and cross-section dependence. The results offer three main findings. First, executive constraints, whether they are judicial or legislative, and tax revenues are cointegrated: there is a long-run relationship between the two. While in the short run they can drift apart, this will be temporary because they tend to co-evolve. Second, evidence of cointegration is strongest for revenues from direct taxes, suggesting that the existence and nature of a long-run relationship may be mainly related to the emergence of broad-based taxation. Third, long-run causality runs mostly from executive constraints to taxation. This is most evident for income taxes. Our findings link Sustainable Development Goals 17 and 16, implying that the goal of promoting inclusive and accountable institutions may work in synergy with that of generating internal resources to finance development goals.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9267-135-8
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2022/4

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; National Budget; Budget Systems ; Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Latin America; Caribbean
• Thema: constraints on the executive ; tax revenues ; institutions ; Sustainable Development Goal 17

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Savoia, Antonio ; Sen, Kunal ; Tagem, Abrams M. E.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2022

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2022/135-8
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/259360
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ