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Please find here: http://www.euro.centre.org/detail.php?xml_id=1109
our first Policy Brief in 2008.
This Policy Brief by Asghar Zaidi summarises the policy experience of
the tax credit system in the United Kingdom, with the aim to understand
better the challenges underlying the tax credit policy to be initiated
in Austria. Perhaps the strongest message for Austria is: “keep it
simple”, as the benefit simplicity will help to effectively implement,
monitor and evaluate the experience of the tax credit policy. It is also
imperative that a good and tested IT system is put in place before
introducing the scheme. The success of the tax credit policy in Austria
will also depend on the contextual factors, such as the interplay with
other tax and benefit and labour market policies, wage setting
arrangements, etc, and more background research on the effect of these
factors will be useful. A pragmatic approach would be to introduce, in
the first instance, a tax credit scheme for specific subgroups, such as
lone parent families and working age persons with disabilities.
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interested.
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Best regards
Annette Hexelschneider, Dipl.-Ing.
Head of Knowledge and Information Management Support Unit
European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
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