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Table 7 Simulated redistribution effects of typical GST regimes

From: The effects of China’ s VAT enlargement reform on the income redistribution of urban households

Inequality measure

Current VAT/BT

Post-reform VAT

VAT/overall reduction

VAT/selected reduction

   

13 %

11 %

6 %

0 %

GE2

−0.0056

−0.0054

−0.0037

−0.0032

−0.0029

−0.0024

GE1

−0.0036

−0.0035

−0.0024

−0.0022

−0.0019

−0.0015

GE0

−0.0035

−0.0033

−0.0023

−0.002

−0.0017

−0.0013

GE−1

0.0044

0.0043

0.0075

0.0081

0.0083

0.0088

Gini

−0.0032

−0.003

−0.0022

−0.002

−0.0017

−0.0014