This brief shows the impact of weak personal tax collection in Asia and the Pacific and explains how wholesale reforms designed to improve income tax structure and boost income tax compliance would help governments fund key services and cut income and wealth inequality.
The brief considers ways to make personal income tax systems in Asia and the Pacific more efficient and equitable and considers the benefits of supporting reforms to property taxes, corporate income tax, and wealth taxes. It recommends improving personal income tax structure through such measures as broadening of the tax base and raising taxation on capital income and improving tax administration through strengthening all core functions, with emphasis on third-party reporting and tax withholding on wages.