Journal of Tax Research

Abstract

The efficient VAT that does not distort the relative prices is the severely descending tax that has undesirable effects on income distribution and creates significant executive problems. The exemption is one of the tools for reduction of distributional and administrative consequences of VAT, but its overuse leads to more inefficiencies of this tax and as a result many benefits of the tax disappear. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and review the exemptions granted in accordance with the VAT law, and it is investigating this issue that whether in designing VAT system the trade-off between efficiency goals, income distribution and ease of implementation has been considered?