Migration, Taxation, and Inequality
International migration is intimately intertwined with issues of taxation, inequality and public welfare benefits, both in home and destination countries. In home countries the emigration of workers, especially high-skilled workers, is often percei...
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okr-10986-100382021-04-23T14:02:48Z Migration, Taxation, and Inequality Moreno-Dodson, Blanca Mohapatra, Sanket Ratha, Dilip BANK POLICY BANK TRANSACTIONS BENEFITS OF MIGRATION BONDS BRAIN DRAIN BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT CAPITAL FLOWS CONSUMER GOODS CONSUMPTION TAXES CONTRIBUTION OF REMITTANCES DEPOSITS DESTINATION COUNTRY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRY DIASPORA DOMESTIC INCOME DOUBLE TAXATION EMIGRATION EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE RATE EXCHANGE RATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS FINANCIAL SERVICES FISCAL BURDEN FISCAL CONSOLIDATION FOREIGN CURRENCY GLOBAL ECONOMIC PROSPECTS GOVERNMENT BUDGET GOVERNMENT REVENUES GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HOME COUNTRIES HOME COUNTRY HOST COUNTRIES HOST COUNTRY HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMPACT OF MIGRATION IMPLICIT TAX INCOME INCOME GROUPS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME TAX INCOME TAXES INCOMES INFORMAL CHANNELS INNOVATIVE FINANCING INSURANCE INTERNAL REVENUE INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY INTERNATIONAL TRADE INVESTMENT CLIMATE JURISDICTIONS LABOR MARKET LABOUR MIGRATION LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MACROECONOMIC STABILITY MARGINAL TAX RATES MATCHING GRANTS MATURITY MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES MIGRANT WORKERS MIGRANTS MIGRATION POLICY MONEY TRANSFER MONEY TRANSFER SERVICES OPTIMAL TAXATION PENSIONS PRODUCTIVITY PUBLIC FINANCE PUBLIC FINANCES PUBLIC SERVICES RECIPIENT COUNTRIES REMITTANCE REMITTANCE FLOWS REMITTANCE INFLOWS REMITTANCE RECIPIENTS REMITTANCE TRANSFERS REMITTANCES RETURN RETURNS SAFETY NETS SALES TAXES SKILLED MIGRANTS SKILLED WORKERS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL SAFETY NETS SOCIAL SERVICES STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT TAX TAX BASE TAX BRACKETS TAX COLLECTIONS TAX COMPETITION TAX FORMS TAX HAVENS TAX INCENTIVES TAX POLICY TAX RATES TAX REVENUE TAX REVENUES TAX STRUCTURE TAX SYSTEM TAX TREATIES TAX TREATMENT TAXATION POLICIES TAXPAYERS TEMPORARY WORK TRADE LIBERALIZATION TREATIES UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS WAGES International migration is intimately intertwined with issues of taxation, inequality and public welfare benefits, both in home and destination countries. In home countries the emigration of workers, especially high-skilled workers, is often perceived to create a fiscal loss due to the cost of educating these workers and foregone tax revenues that may reduce the fiscal resources available for income redistribution. On the other hand, remittances, when well spent, can create multiplier effects and contribute to increasing domestic demand and growth, as well as increasing tax collections. In destination countries, immigration raises other challenges, especially when poor and undocumented workers are perceived as taking more from the government budget in the form of social welfare and health care benefits than what they contribute in the form of tax revenues. This note discusses some of the current issues around migration and taxation including how to compensate home countries for the fiscal losses of high-skilled emigration, how to bring immigrants into the tax system and make them net contributors, whether or not to tax inward, cross-border remittances, and designing appropriate tax incentives to encourage diaspora investment in the home country. 2012-08-13T10:14:05Z 2012-08-13T10:14:05Z 2012-05 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/05/16252940/migration-taxation-inequality http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10038 English Economic Premise; No. 80 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research |
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BANK POLICY BANK TRANSACTIONS BENEFITS OF MIGRATION BONDS BRAIN DRAIN BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT CAPITAL FLOWS CONSUMER GOODS CONSUMPTION TAXES CONTRIBUTION OF REMITTANCES DEPOSITS DESTINATION COUNTRY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRY DIASPORA DOMESTIC INCOME DOUBLE TAXATION EMIGRATION EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE RATE EXCHANGE RATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS FINANCIAL SERVICES FISCAL BURDEN FISCAL CONSOLIDATION FOREIGN CURRENCY GLOBAL ECONOMIC PROSPECTS GOVERNMENT BUDGET GOVERNMENT REVENUES GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HOME COUNTRIES HOME COUNTRY HOST COUNTRIES HOST COUNTRY HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMPACT OF MIGRATION IMPLICIT TAX INCOME INCOME GROUPS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME TAX INCOME TAXES INCOMES INFORMAL CHANNELS INNOVATIVE FINANCING INSURANCE INTERNAL REVENUE INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY INTERNATIONAL TRADE INVESTMENT CLIMATE JURISDICTIONS LABOR MARKET LABOUR MIGRATION LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MACROECONOMIC STABILITY MARGINAL TAX RATES MATCHING GRANTS MATURITY MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES MIGRANT WORKERS MIGRANTS MIGRATION POLICY MONEY TRANSFER MONEY TRANSFER SERVICES OPTIMAL TAXATION PENSIONS PRODUCTIVITY PUBLIC FINANCE PUBLIC FINANCES PUBLIC SERVICES RECIPIENT COUNTRIES REMITTANCE REMITTANCE FLOWS REMITTANCE INFLOWS REMITTANCE RECIPIENTS REMITTANCE TRANSFERS REMITTANCES RETURN RETURNS SAFETY NETS SALES TAXES SKILLED MIGRANTS SKILLED WORKERS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL SAFETY NETS SOCIAL SERVICES STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT TAX TAX BASE TAX BRACKETS TAX COLLECTIONS TAX COMPETITION TAX FORMS TAX HAVENS TAX INCENTIVES TAX POLICY TAX RATES TAX REVENUE TAX REVENUES TAX STRUCTURE TAX SYSTEM TAX TREATIES TAX TREATMENT TAXATION POLICIES TAXPAYERS TEMPORARY WORK TRADE LIBERALIZATION TREATIES UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS WAGES |
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BANK POLICY BANK TRANSACTIONS BENEFITS OF MIGRATION BONDS BRAIN DRAIN BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT CAPITAL FLOWS CONSUMER GOODS CONSUMPTION TAXES CONTRIBUTION OF REMITTANCES DEPOSITS DESTINATION COUNTRY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRY DIASPORA DOMESTIC INCOME DOUBLE TAXATION EMIGRATION EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE RATE EXCHANGE RATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS FINANCIAL SERVICES FISCAL BURDEN FISCAL CONSOLIDATION FOREIGN CURRENCY GLOBAL ECONOMIC PROSPECTS GOVERNMENT BUDGET GOVERNMENT REVENUES GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HOME COUNTRIES HOME COUNTRY HOST COUNTRIES HOST COUNTRY HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMPACT OF MIGRATION IMPLICIT TAX INCOME INCOME GROUPS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME TAX INCOME TAXES INCOMES INFORMAL CHANNELS INNOVATIVE FINANCING INSURANCE INTERNAL REVENUE INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY INTERNATIONAL TRADE INVESTMENT CLIMATE JURISDICTIONS LABOR MARKET LABOUR MIGRATION LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MACROECONOMIC STABILITY MARGINAL TAX RATES MATCHING GRANTS MATURITY MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES MIGRANT WORKERS MIGRANTS MIGRATION POLICY MONEY TRANSFER MONEY TRANSFER SERVICES OPTIMAL TAXATION PENSIONS PRODUCTIVITY PUBLIC FINANCE PUBLIC FINANCES PUBLIC SERVICES RECIPIENT COUNTRIES REMITTANCE REMITTANCE FLOWS REMITTANCE INFLOWS REMITTANCE RECIPIENTS REMITTANCE TRANSFERS REMITTANCES RETURN RETURNS SAFETY NETS SALES TAXES SKILLED MIGRANTS SKILLED WORKERS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL SAFETY NETS SOCIAL SERVICES STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT TAX TAX BASE TAX BRACKETS TAX COLLECTIONS TAX COMPETITION TAX FORMS TAX HAVENS TAX INCENTIVES TAX POLICY TAX RATES TAX REVENUE TAX REVENUES TAX STRUCTURE TAX SYSTEM TAX TREATIES TAX TREATMENT TAXATION POLICIES TAXPAYERS TEMPORARY WORK TRADE LIBERALIZATION TREATIES UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS WAGES Moreno-Dodson, Blanca Mohapatra, Sanket Ratha, Dilip Migration, Taxation, and Inequality |
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Economic Premise; No. 80 |
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International migration is intimately
intertwined with issues of taxation, inequality and public
welfare benefits, both in home and destination countries. In
home countries the emigration of workers, especially
high-skilled workers, is often perceived to create a fiscal
loss due to the cost of educating these workers and foregone
tax revenues that may reduce the fiscal resources available
for income redistribution. On the other hand, remittances,
when well spent, can create multiplier effects and
contribute to increasing domestic demand and growth, as well
as increasing tax collections. In destination countries,
immigration raises other challenges, especially when poor
and undocumented workers are perceived as taking more from
the government budget in the form of social welfare and
health care benefits than what they contribute in the form
of tax revenues. This note discusses some of the current
issues around migration and taxation including how to
compensate home countries for the fiscal losses of
high-skilled emigration, how to bring immigrants into the
tax system and make them net contributors, whether or not to
tax inward, cross-border remittances, and designing
appropriate tax incentives to encourage diaspora investment
in the home country. |
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Publications & Research :: Brief |
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Moreno-Dodson, Blanca Mohapatra, Sanket Ratha, Dilip |
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Moreno-Dodson, Blanca Mohapatra, Sanket Ratha, Dilip |
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Moreno-Dodson, Blanca |
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Migration, Taxation, and Inequality |
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Migration, Taxation, and Inequality |
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Migration, Taxation, and Inequality |
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Migration, Taxation, and Inequality |
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Migration, Taxation, and Inequality |
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migration, taxation, and inequality |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2012 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/05/16252940/migration-taxation-inequality http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10038 |
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