Gender and Tax Incidence of Rural Land Use Fee and Agricultural Income Tax in Ethiopia
The rural land use fee and agricultural income tax are major payments for rural landholders in Ethiopia. This paper examines the gender implications of these taxes using tax payment and individual land ownership data from the Ethiopian Socioeconomi...
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okr-10986-358862021-07-02T05:10:55Z Gender and Tax Incidence of Rural Land Use Fee and Agricultural Income Tax in Ethiopia Komatsu, Hitomi Ambel, Alemayehu A. Koolwal, Gayatri Yonis, Manex Bule TAX INCIDENCE TAXATION LAND OWNERSHIP GENDER AGRICULTURE LAND USE POLICY REGRESSIVE TAX SMALLHOLDER FARMERS The rural land use fee and agricultural income tax are major payments for rural landholders in Ethiopia. This paper examines the gender implications of these taxes using tax payment and individual land ownership data from the Ethiopian Socioeconomic Survey 2018/2019. It finds that the rural land use fee and agricultural income tax, which are assessed on the area of landholdings, are regressive. Female-headed- and female adult-only households bear a larger tax burden than male-headed and dual-adult households. Norms limiting women’s role in agriculture and gender agricultural productivity gaps are likely to result in lower consumption and accordingly, a higher tax burden for female-headed households than for male-headed households. Reducing the tax rates for smallholders can diminish the gender difference in tax burdens, but the tax continues to be regressive. This highlights the difficulty of area-based land taxes to be vertically equitable. 2021-07-01T14:17:51Z 2021-07-01T14:17:51Z 2021-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/121581624568792085/Gender-and-Tax-Incidence-of-Rural-Land-Use-Fee-and-Agricultural-Income-Tax-in-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35886 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9715 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE) Ethiopia |
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TAX INCIDENCE TAXATION LAND OWNERSHIP GENDER AGRICULTURE LAND USE POLICY REGRESSIVE TAX SMALLHOLDER FARMERS Komatsu, Hitomi Ambel, Alemayehu A. Koolwal, Gayatri Yonis, Manex Bule Gender and Tax Incidence of Rural Land Use Fee and Agricultural Income Tax in Ethiopia |
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The rural land use fee and agricultural
income tax are major payments for rural landholders in
Ethiopia. This paper examines the gender implications of
these taxes using tax payment and individual land ownership
data from the Ethiopian Socioeconomic Survey 2018/2019. It
finds that the rural land use fee and agricultural income
tax, which are assessed on the area of landholdings, are
regressive. Female-headed- and female adult-only households
bear a larger tax burden than male-headed and dual-adult
households. Norms limiting women’s role in agriculture and
gender agricultural productivity gaps are likely to result
in lower consumption and accordingly, a higher tax burden
for female-headed households than for male-headed
households. Reducing the tax rates for smallholders can
diminish the gender difference in tax burdens, but the tax
continues to be regressive. This highlights the difficulty
of area-based land taxes to be vertically equitable. |
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Working Paper |
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Komatsu, Hitomi Ambel, Alemayehu A. Koolwal, Gayatri Yonis, Manex Bule |
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Komatsu, Hitomi Ambel, Alemayehu A. Koolwal, Gayatri Yonis, Manex Bule |
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Komatsu, Hitomi |
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Gender and Tax Incidence of Rural Land Use Fee and Agricultural Income Tax in Ethiopia |
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Gender and Tax Incidence of Rural Land Use Fee and Agricultural Income Tax in Ethiopia |
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Gender and Tax Incidence of Rural Land Use Fee and Agricultural Income Tax in Ethiopia |
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Gender and Tax Incidence of Rural Land Use Fee and Agricultural Income Tax in Ethiopia |
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Gender and Tax Incidence of Rural Land Use Fee and Agricultural Income Tax in Ethiopia |
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gender and tax incidence of rural land use fee and agricultural income tax in ethiopia |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2021 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/121581624568792085/Gender-and-Tax-Incidence-of-Rural-Land-Use-Fee-and-Agricultural-Income-Tax-in-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35886 |
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