Latvia Stumbling Towards Progressive Income Taxation: Episode II
This policy brief uses EUROMOD-LV model to analyze the distributional effects of the 2018 Tax Reform in Latvia
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Latvia Stumbling Towards Progressive Income Taxation
The 2016 Latvian budget includes measures aimed at increasing the progressivity of the income tax system. A new policy brief reports some simulations on the impact of these measures using the Latvian component of EUROMOD.
Latest country report
How the Latvian tax-benefit system is modelled in EUROMOD, including an overview of the system and recent changes: 2016-2018 (EUROMOD version I1.0)
Meet the national team
The Latvian national team is based at The Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS) . BICEPS is an independent research centre located in Riga, Latvia. BICEPS undertake and promote policy-oriented research in economics and other social sciences and provide advice and consulting services for both government and business in the Baltic states and elsewhere.
The current team members are: Anna Pluta, Olegs Matvejevs & Anna Zasova.
Working Papers
Cross country comparative
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Progressive tax reforms in flat tax countries
Salvador Barrios, Viginta Ivaškaitė-Tamošiūnė, Anamaria Maftei, Edlira Narazani, Janos Varga
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Factors of the income inequality in the Baltics: income, policy, demography
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Effects of tax-benefit policy changes across the income distributions of the EU-28 countries: 2015-2016
List all EUROMOD Working Papers that include analysis of Latvia