Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/190039 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2017/194
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper uses income and expenditure surveys from 1992 to 2014 and public tax and spending accounts to estimate the redistributive impact of Mexico's fiscal system over this period. It presents standard and marginal benefit incidence analysis for the principal public transfers (education, health, social security, direct cash transfers) in 1992-2014, and for the full fiscal system for 2008-14. The paper also estimates the effects of a major recent fiscal reform for the years 2015-18: the transition from large subsidies to taxes on petrol. The analysis shows a continuous improvement in the redistributive effects of the fiscal system through the 1990s and 2000s associated with an increase in social spending and in the progressivity of this spending over this period. This trend stagnated and reversed after 2008/2010, reflecting in part an interruption of the expansive and progressive trend of social transfers, but especially a sharp decline of net indirect subsidies.
Subjects: 
fiscal incidence
taxation
social spending
inequality
poverty
Mexico
JEL: 
D31
H22
H42
I38
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-420-9
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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