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HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC): 1.8 million couples benefitting from extra tax relief

News, Tax Expenditures News
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has announced that nearly 1.8 million couples in the UK use the Marriage Allowance to save up to £252 a year

CIAT Blog: General Analysis of Changes to Tax Benefits for Investments in Non-conventional Sources of Renewable Energy in Colombia Following the Energy Transition Law

By Omar Cabrera | 18 August 2021 | GTED News, News
Omar Cabrera discusses the changes introduced by the Enery Transition Law with respect to the tax benefits for investments in the general regulatory framework for Non-Conventional

Frankfurter Rundschau Article: Steuern – Rabatte auf den Prüfstand

By Christian von Haldenwang | 8 July 2021 | News
GTED’s Christian von Haldenwang writes about the significant amount of revenue that states forgo through tax expenditures which on average lie around 4% of gross domestic

Atlantico Interview: Quelle efficacité des aides et exonérations fiscales ? Voilà pourquoi personne ne sait vraiment répondre

GTED News, News
Tax expenditures in France amount to Euro 99 billion. Despite their magnitude they are under much less scrutiny compared to direct government spending. Atlantico interviews Agustin

Tax Foundation Article: U.S. Corporate Tax Expenditures and Effective Tax Rates in Line with OECD Peers

By Garrett Watson | 29 June 2021 | GTED News, News
In response to an analysis by Reuters suggesting that U.S. firms pay less income tax than foreign competitors, Garrett Watson writes about tax expenditures in the

Tax Incentives for Investment. Old and New Challenges for International Trade

24 June 2021 | Events, News
This event is part of the workshop series “Globalization and Digitalization – Interconnections between taxation, trade and investment” organized by Council on Economic Policies, the GLOBTAXGOV

VoxEU Article: Tax Expenditures: The Hidden Side of Government Spending

By Agustin Redonda, Christian von Haldenwang | 16 June 2021 | News
Tax expenditures – such as tax incentives for firms, tax deductions for households, and lower tax rates for specific goods and services – are are both

News Coverage: Every Year 24 Billion Swiss Francs Disappear – Jedes Jahr verschwinden 24 Milliarden Franken

By Andrea Cattani, Nicola Imfeld | 16 June 2021 | GTED News
The authors write about the opacity of tax expenditures in Switzerland where revenue forgone due to tax expenditures amounted to CHF 24 billion in 2020. This

Press Release: New Global Tax Expenditures Database by CEP and DIE: Shedding Light on Hidden Government Spending

16 June 2021 | GTED News
The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) today launch the Global Tax Expenditures Database (GTED). The

Global Tax Expenditures Database – Official Launch

16 June 2021 | Events
The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) launched the «Global Tax Expenditures Database» (GTED): www.GTED.net with