Autori: Dracea, Raluca, Cristea, Mirela, Ionascu, Costel and Irtes, Meltem

Editorial: MPRA Paper, 10469, 2008.

Rezumat:

The academic literature analyzes the fiscality concern from all points of view, and the question which pressed upon the theoreticians and also the practitioners of the last decades remains: which is the adequate
level of the fiscality? The difficulty in answering the question consists in opposite interests: on one hand, the
government is willing to acquire the highest level due to the ascendant tendency of public expenses; on the other hand, the tax payers long for a much reduced level in order to dispose of more financial funds. Considering the
theory of Arthur Laffer as well as the premise that the taxation structure (flat or progressive tax) is less important than the general level of taxation (tax burden), the purpose of this paper consists in the empirical analysis of the correlation between the tax pressure rate, GDP and the tax incomes flux within two States which adopt different tax systems: Romania and Turkey. For this purpose, we have described the methodology of creating the Laffer curve for Romania and Turkey and we have applied the methods concerning the analysis between the GDP and real tax systems, as well as those methods which estimate the empirical tendency of the fiscality rate within the
two States, mentioned above, taking into account the parameters which determine it. The conclusion indicates
the existence of a correlation between the real GDP and the real tax incomes, strongly manifested in Turkey (progressive tax system) as compared to Romania (flat tax system). Romania provides an optimistic position,
based on standard tendencies which confirm the theory of Arthur Laffer within other countries in Eastern
Europe.

Cuvinte cheie: Laffer curve, fiscality rate, tax incomes, static statistical analysis, correlations

URL: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10469/1/MPRA_paper_10469.pdf