Fundamental tax reform must strengthen incentives, reduce distorting tax expenditures, and raise revenue.

The first is comprehensive tax reform aimed at aligning tax policy with desirable economic incentives.

Zurich Committee of experts for the reform of tax offences.

Raising revenue through tax reform will have to mean reducing the special deductions and exclusions that now lower tax receipts.

Unfortunately, advanced countries have implemented very little fundamental tax reform so far.

In Germany, the most urgent needs are for tax and labor market reform.

In recent years, a tax reform movement has formed behind the FairTax proposal.

Broadening the income tax base is a central element of the highly regarded Simpson Bowles proposals for tax reform in the United States.

Unfortunately, movements towards fundamental tax reform are on the back burner in most countries.

Yet he has never proposed comprehensive reform of either the personal or corporate income tax.

Without comprehensive reform under strong political leadership, a tax hike alone cannot solve Japan s problems.

During the period under review, a serious reform of the Territory's tax system was instituted.

In many countries, tax reform has already significantly increased the share of direct taxes in overall revenue. Raising tax rates for the wealthiest citizens in developing a more progressive income tax framework would bolster this progress.

In many countries, tax reform has already significantly increased the share of direct taxes in overall revenue.

Tax reform is the process of changing the way taxes are collected or managed by the government.

Unfortunately, advanced countries have implemented very little fundamental tax reform so far. Many governments are giving in to higher marginal tax rates rather than overhauling and simplifying the system.

Rather than paying for any necessary spending by raising tax rates on the rich sky high, which would hurt entrepreneurship, more thoughtful across the board tax reform is needed.

That said, if the goal of corporate tax reform is to boost investment and job creation, broadening the tax base to pay for a lower rate could be counterproductive.

Other changes a counter productive electoral reform, a minor revenue enhancing tax reform, and hypothetical oil sector reform all suffer from Calderón s penchant for minimalism enacting legislation seems more important to him than the content.

Their version of tax reform would mean reducing deductions for the wealthy and corporations, with no rate reductions.

Doubting that there would be shared sacrifice, those same interest groups were unable to negotiate meaningful tax reform.

America must reform its tax code to raise revenue across a wider array of people and economic activity (half the US population pays no federal income tax, and the tax code either excludes or favorably treats many income sources).

Both President Barack Obama s plan for business tax reform and the Simpson Bowles deficit reduction plan propose reducing such expenditures to pay for a reduction in the corporate tax rate.

But they are no substitute for fundamental long term reform to make tax systems simpler, fairer, and more efficient.

Greece will also have to downsize its public sector, reform tax administration, and take other steps to modernize its economy.

The problem with this vision of tax reform is that it is magical an attractive illusion with no basis in reality.

Moreover, Putin s associates wanted Yukos wealth, which was confiscated by the state oil company Rosneft through lawless taxation, leaving Putin s tax reform and judicial reform in tatters and severely undermining property rights.

He argues that the tax law reform of 2001 refutes the State party's argument that the inequalities in the Act of 4 July 1990 were necessary to elaborate a coherent body of tax legislation.

At such a sensitive time, it is no surprise to hear politicians pitching the idea of tax reform suggesting that they can simplify the system, close loopholes, and use the proceeds to reduce tax rates.

Indeed, the lower marginal rate ought to be made permanent, but accompanied by spending control, with broader tax reform to come later.

But slowing the growth of Social Security benefits and capping total tax expenditures would be a good framework for the coming reform.

With everyone accepting sacrifices, it might have been possible to reach an accord on liberalizing closed professions and on comprehensive tax reform.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland provided assistance to Afghanistan with the reform of its tax and customs system.

Sometimes no reform is better than the wrong type of reform. That seems to be the case in Mexico, which recently passed new tax and electoral laws but not the ones the country needs.

Their removal, as everyone in Mexico acknowledges, is a sop to the PRI and the PRD in exchange for Calderón s miserly tax reform.

Despite this economic orthodoxy, Vázquez s government also pursued important policy innovations protection of human rights was improved tax reform, including introduction of a general, progressive income tax was undertaken and a more inclusive health system was created.

While tax reform was high on President Felipe Calderón s agenda during last year s presidential campaign, electoral reform was not. Instead, it has been imposed upon him by a strange and extreme version of political horse trading.

What Sarkozy has announced so far is his intention to cut income taxes, reform public sector unions, and give tax breaks for overtime work.

Obama would raise the top marginal tax rates on wages, capital gains, dividends, interest, and estates, especially on higher income individuals and small businesses. Yet he has never proposed comprehensive reform of either the personal or corporate income tax.

But a gradual phase in of an overall cap on tax deductions and exclusions (so called tax expenditures), combined with reform of entitlement spending, could achieve the long run fiscal consolidation that America needs without risking a new recession.

Fiscal reform We desperately need you to eliminate the looming fiscal cliff in the context of medium term reforms of both the tax system and entitlements.

Fiscal reform We desperately need you to eliminate the looming fiscal cliff in the context of medium term reforms of both the tax system and entitlements.

With the ongoing reform of the interstate ICMS (a tax levied on the circulation of goods and services), investors will have greater legal clarity and security.

Although Congressional Republicans rightly object to raising tax rates, they appear willing to raise revenue through tax reform if that is part of a deal that also includes reductions in the long run cost of the major entitlement programs, Medicare and Social Security.

The results can be seen in the reports of the Secretary General and in special thematic reports on land issues (2000), rural development and natural resources (2000), labour rights (2000), housing (2001), women (2001), tax reform (2001) and education reform (2002).