직접세부담의 국제적 비교분석

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the direct tax burden empirically by estimating the income elasticity[buoyancy] of tax revenue on the viewpoint of macroeconomics and to seek the implication of tax policy by comparing the results among the major OECD countries. To achieve this aim, it analyzes empirically the burden of the direct tax (income tax and corporate tax) having great shares of tax revenue through the annual data of major OECD countries (Austria, Canada, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, United States) and our country. The empirical analysis seeks to draw the policy implications on the direct tax burden by estimating the income elasticity of tax revenue assuming the case without the revision effect of tax law. The empirical results indicate that the income tax revenue and corporate tax revenue increase as GDP's increase in all the countries except Germany and Japan. The reason of the empirical results of Germany and Japan can be found in reduction of the income tax rates and corporate tax rates due to the log-term economic recession and low economic growth rates over the sample period. This paper can make a contribution to design tax policy scheme since it can be used as the important data suggesting the direction of the tax policy, on the viewpoint of the current trend that most OECD countries reduce the direct tax such as income and corporate taxes and increase the indirect tax such as consumption tax.