Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/197596 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
EUROMOD Working Paper No. EM10/16
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
We explore the prospects for using the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) dataset as an underlying micro-database for the EU taxbenefit model, EUROMOD. This will allow expanding the policy domains currently covered in EUROMOD with dimensions like wealth taxation, incentives for wealth accumulation and asset tests determining benefit eligibility. As the HFCS only contains gross income amounts which are not suitable for distributive analysis, the purpose of this paper is to derive net incomes by simulating the gross-to-net transition with EUROMOD taking into account all important details of the social security and personal income tax system. In order to identify the issues and illustrate their importance a trial database for Belgium and Italy is constructed.
Subjects: 
EUROMOD
HFCS
simulations
gross-to-net incomes
wealth taxation
JEL: 
C15
H24
I3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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