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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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Annette Hexelschneider, Dipl.-Ing.
Head of Knowledge and Information Management Support Unit
European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
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