Tax Expenditures Country Report: Brazil
Paolo de Renzio,
Manoel Pires,
Natalia Rodrigues and
Giosvaldo Teixeira Junior | 25 February 2025
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GTED,
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Tax Expenditures Tax expenditures in Brazil corresponded to 4.78% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2023, taking only the federal level into account. If state-level tax expenditures are included, the share reaches 7.2% of GDP in 2023.
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Is It Time to Rationalize Tax Expenditures?
Luisa Dressler,
Sanjeev Gupta,
Agustin Redonda and
Paolo de Renzio | 19 April 2022
Fiscal,
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Tax Expenditures,
Tax Reform As developing countries recover from the pandemic, they will need to bring their public finances to a more sustainable position, by streamlining public spending and strengthening the revenue base. The need to mobilize additional resources has been exacerbated by the recent economic turmoil triggered by
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Civil Society Groups Across Latin America Are Starting to Question Tax Expenditures
Paolo de Renzio and
Alexandre Ciconello | 21 March 2019
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Tax Expenditures How governments raise the revenues they need to support public spending is a fundamental aspect of public finance. Despite this, taxation has been the focus of limited analysis and action by civil society groups around the world, especially in developing countries. But in recent years,
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