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Fiscal policy and Income Redistribution in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay Nora Lustig Tulane University CGD and IAD Noveno Congreso Internacional FIAP-ASOFONDOS Cartagena de Indias, Colombia 29 de abril, 2016

Source: Lustig, Nora “El impacto del sistema tributario y el gasto social en la distribución del ingreso y la pobreza en América Latina: Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Perú y Uruguay.” CEQ Working Paper No. 47, Commitment to Equity Institute, Tulane University, forthcoming. To be published in El Trimestre Económico. Study prepared for the División de Administración Fiscal y Municipal of the Inter-American Development Bank 2

Commitment to Equity Institute (CEQI) Research-based policy tools Data Center Advisory and training services Bridges to policy  Grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation US4.9 million for 5 yrs 3

CEQ Institute: Core Staff Director: Nora Lustig Director of Policy Area: Ludovico Feoli Associate Directors: Maynor Cabrera, Jon Jellema, Estuardo Moran and Stephen Younger Technical Coordinator: Sandra Martinez Data Center Director: Sean Higgins Communications Director: Carlos Martin del Campo 4

Commitment to Equity Institute Working on close to 40 countries; covers around two thirds of the world population Over 100 collaborators Collaborative efforts and partnerships with multiple organizations: AfDB, CAF, IDB, IMF, ICEFI, OECD, Oxfam, UNDP, World Bank Utilized by governments Working Paper series and numerous scholarly publications 5

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CEQ Assessment: Tools  Handbook: Lustig and Higgins, current version Sept 2013, updated Feb 2016; includes sample Stata code  CEQ Handbook 2016 (forthcoming) Lustig, Nora, editor. Commitment to Equity Handbook: Estimating the Redistributive Impact of Fiscal Policy, Tulane University and the World Bank  Master Workbook: Excel Spreadsheet to present background information, assumptions and results.  Diagnostic Questionnaire: = > available on website  Ado Stata Files 7

CEQ Assessment: Method  Relies on state-of-the art tax and benefit incidence analysis Ongoing consultation with experts to improve economic incidence estimates  Uses conventional and newly developed indicators to assess progressivity, pro-poorness and effectiveness of taxes and transfers  Allows to identify the contribution of individual fiscal interventions to equity and poverty reduction objectives 8 Lustig & Higgins (2013)

CEQ Assessment: Fiscal Incidence Analysis Y h = I h - ∑ i T i S ih + ∑ j B j S jh 9 Income after taxes and transfers Income before taxes and transfers Taxes Transfers Share of tax i paid by unit h Share of transfer j received by unit h

CEQ Assessment: Fiscal Interventions Currently included: – Personal income taxes – Contributions to pensions and social insurance systems – Direct cash transfers – Non-cash direct transfers such as school uniforms and breakfast – Indirect taxes on consumption – Indirect subsidies – In-kind transfers such as spending on education and health Working on: – Corporate taxes – Housing subsidies 10 Lustig & Higgins (2013)

MARKET INCOME DISPOSABLE INCOME PLUS DIRECT TRANSFERS MINUS DIRECT TAXES PLUS INDIRECT SUBSIDIES MINUS INDIRECT TAXES POST-FISCAL or CONSUMABLE INCOME PLUS MONETIZED VALUE OF PUBLIC SERVICES: EDUCATION & HEALTH FINAL INCOME CEQ Assessment: Income Concepts 11

Fiscal Incidence in CEQ Assessments  Accounting approach no behavioral responses no general equilibrium effects and no intertemporal effects but it incorporates assumptions to obtain economic incidence (not statutory)  Point-in-time  Mainly average incidence; a few cases with marginal incidence 12 Lustig & Higgins (2013)

Fiscal Incidence in CEQ Assessments  Comprehensive standard fiscal incidence analysis of current systems: direct personal and indirect taxes (no corporate taxes); cash and in-kind transfers (public services); indirect subsidies  Harmonized definitions and methodological approaches to facilitate cross-country comparisons  Uses income/consumption per capita as the welfare indicator  Allocators vary => full transparency in the method used for each category, tax shifting assumptions, tax evasion  Secondary sources are used to a minimum 13 Lustig & Higgins (2013)

Allocation Methods  Direct Identification in microdata  However, results must be checked: how realistic are they?  If information not directly available in microdata, then:  Simulation  Imputation  Inference  Prediction  Alternate Survey  Secondary Sources 14 Lustig & Higgins (2013)

Tax Shifting Assumptions Economic burden of direct personal income taxes is borne by the recipient of income Burden of payroll and social security taxes is assumed to fall entirely on workers Consumption taxes are assumed to be shifted forward to consumers. These assumptions are strong because they imply that labor supply is perfectly inelastic and that consumers have perfectly inelastic demand In practice, they provide a reasonable approximation (with important exceptions such as when examining effect of VAT reforms), and they are commonly used 15 Lustig & Higgins (2013)

Tax Evasion Assumptions: Case Specific  Income taxes and contributions to SS:  Individuals who do not participate in the contributory social security system are assumed not to pay them  Consumption taxes  Place of purchase: informal markets are assumed not to charge them  Some country teams assumed small towns in rural areas do not to pay them 16 Lustig & Higgins (2013)

Monetizing in-kind transfers  Incidence of public spending on education and health followed so- called “benefit or expenditure incidence” or the “government cost” approach.  In essence, we use per beneficiary input costs obtained from administrative data as the measure of average benefits.  This approach amounts to asking the following question:  How much would the income of a household have to be increased if it had to pay for the free or subsidized public service at the full cost to the government? 17 Lustig & Higgins (2013)

Scenarios and Robustness Checks  Benchmark scenario  Sensitivity to: Changing the original income by which hh are ranked: e.g., market income plus contributory pensions and disposable income Using consumption vs. income Per capita vs. equivalized income or consumption Different assumptions on scaling-down or up Different assumptions on take-up of transfers and tax shifting and evasion Alternative valuations of in-kind services Other sensitivity scenarios: country-specific 18 Lustig & Higgins (2013)

Redistributive Effect of Contributory Pensions

Treatment of Contributory Social Insurance Pensions Deferred Income? Government Transfer? 20 Lustig & Higgins (2013)

Treatment of Contributory Social Insurance Pensions: Deferred Income In actuarially fair systems: – Contributions are not a tax but forced savings – Pensions are not transfers but deferred income – However, there usually is redistribution within the system from: High earners to low earners From workers who contribute but don’t reach the required minimum of years in the labor force to workers who do  Very difficult to measure with information in typical household surveys 21

Treatment of Contributory Social Insurance Pensions: Pensions are part of labor contract In systems where pensions of public sector employees are part of the labor contract in a competitive market: – Contributions are not a tax but forced savings – Pensions are not transfers but deferred income, regardless of whether the system is actuarially fair or not because pensions over and above the capitalized contributions are part of remunerations – Here there also might be some redistribution within the system from: High earners to low earners From workers who contribute but don’t reach the required minimum of years in the labor force to workers who do  Very difficult to measure with information in typical household surveys 22

Treatment of Contributory Social Insurance Pensions: Transfer In systems that are not actuarially fair: – Contributions are a tax – Pensions are transfers – There is redistribution within the system from: High earners to low earners From workers who contribute but don’t reach the required minimum of years in the labor force to workers who do AND from taxpayers in general to the pensioners  However, what is the size of the “subsidy”? 23

Treatment of Contributory Social Insurance Pensions: Transfer However, what is the size of the “subsidy”? Correct/ideal: The difference between what people would have received based on contributions and what they actually receive  Household surveys do not usually have the information to calculate this In practice: income from contributory pensions are treated as a government transfer A more realistic alternative: consider the deficit of the Social Security system as the size of the subsidy and allocate it to individuals based on the distribution of pension income  Deficits that are part of transition from one system to another will exaggerate the impact 24

Treatment of Contributory Social Insurance Pensions in CEQ thus far: Two extreme scenarios: Deferred income in actuarially fair systems: pensions included in pre-fiscal income and contributions treated as mandatory savings Government transfer: pensions included among direct transfers and contributions treated as a direct tax 25 Lustig & Higgins (2013)

Fiscal Policy: Effect on Inequality and Poverty

Main messages Analyzing the tax side without the spending side, or vice versa, is not very useful  A tax can be regressive but when combined with transfers make the system equalizing  A tax can be regressive vis-à-vis pre-fisc income but when combined with transfers make the system more equalizing than without the regressive taxes: e.g, VAT in Chile  Transfers can be equalizing but when combined with taxes, post-fisc poverty can be higher 27 Lambert, 2001; Lustig et al., forthcoming

Does the net fiscal system decrease inequality? 28

Does the net fiscal system decrease inequality? 29

When could a regressive tax exert an equalizing force? 30

Calculating the Marginal Contribution of a Tax 31

Progressivity vs. Size of Intervention: A System with One Tax and One Transfer 32 In a system with one tax and one transfer: Getting the partial derivatives:

FISCAL POLICY, INEQUALITY AND POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA: HIGHLIGHTS

Teams and references by country: (in parenthesis: survey year; C=consumption & I=income) 1.Argentina ( ; I) Rossignolo, Darío CEQ Masterworkbook, CEQ Institute, Tulane University (February 28, 2016) 2.Bolivia (2009; I): Paz Arauco, Verónica, George Gray Molina, Wilson Jiménez Pozo, and Ernesto Yáñez Aguilar “Explaining Low Redistributive Impact in Bolivia.” In Lustig, Nora, Carola Pessino and John Scott Editors. The Redistributive Impact of Taxes and Social Spending in Latin America. Special Issue. Public Finance Review, May, Volume 42, Issue 3. (September 22, 2014) 3.Brazil (2009; I): Higgins, Sean and Claudiney Pereira “The Effects of Brazil’s Taxation and Social Spending on the Distribution of Household Income.” In Lustig, Nora, Carola Pessino and John Scott Editors. The Redistributive Impact of Taxes and Social Spending in Latin America. Special Issue. Public Finance Review, May, Volume 42, Issue 3. (November 4, 2014) 4.Chile (2013, I): Martínez-Aguilar, Sandra and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez CEQ Masterworkbook, CEQ Institute, Tulane University and the World Bank (December 9, 2015) 5.Colombia (2010, I): Melendez, Marcela, Nora Lustig and Valentina Martínez CEQ Masterworkbook, Tulane University (December 17, 2015) 6.Costa Rica (2010; I): Sauma, Juan and Diego Trejos Social Public Spending, Taxes, Redistribution of Income, and Poverty in Costa. CEQ Working Paper No. 18, Center for Inter-American Policy and Research and Department of Economics, Tulane University and Inter-American Dialogue, January. (February 2014)Social Public Spending, Taxes, Redistribution of Income, and Poverty in Costa. 7.Ecuador: Llerena Pinto, Freddy Paul, María Christina Llerena Pinto, Roberto Carlos Saá Daza, and María Andrea Llerena Pinto Social Spending, Taxes and Income Redistribution in Ecuador. CEQ Working Paper No. 28, Center for Inter-American Policy and Research and Department of Economics, Tulane University and Inter-American Dialogue, February.Social Spending, Taxes and Income Redistribution in Ecuador. 34

8.El Salvador (2011; I): Beneke, Margarita, Nora Lustig y José Andrés Oliva El impacto de los impuestos y el gasto social en la desigualdad y la pobreza en El Salvador. CEQ Working Paper No. 26, Center for Inter-American Policy and Research and Department of Economics, Tulane University and Inter-American Dialogue, February. (March 11, 2014) 9.European Union (2011, I) : EUROMOD statistics on Distribution and Decomposition of Disposable Income, accessed at using EUROMOD version no. G Guatemala (2011; I): Cabrera, Maynor, Nora Lustig and Hilcías Morán Fiscal Policy, Inequality and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala. CEQ Working Paper No. 20, Center for Inter-American Policy and Research and Department of Economics, Tulane University and Inter-American Dialogue, October. (April 13, 2014)Fiscal Policy, Inequality and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala 11.Honduras (2011; I): Castañeda, Ricardo e Ilya Espino CEQ Masterworkbook, CEQ Institute, Tulane University (August 18, 2015) 12.Indonesia (2012; C) : Afkar, Rythia, Jon Jellema and Matthew Wai-Poi CEQ Master Workbook, Tulane University and The World Bank (February 18, 2014) 13.Mexico (2010; I): Scott, John “Redistributive Impact and Efficiency of Mexico’s Fiscal System.” In Lustig, Nora, Carola Pessino and John Scott Editors. The Redistributive Impact of Taxes and Social Spending in Latin America. Special Issue. Public Finance Review, May, Volume 42, Issue 3. (September 2013) 14.Peru (2009; I): Jaramillo, Miguel “The Incidence of Social Spending and Taxes in Peru.” In Lustig, Nora, Carola Pessino and John Scott Editors. The Redistributive Impact of Taxes and Social Spending in Latin America. Special Issue. Public Finance Review, May, Volume 42, Issue 3. (May 1, 2013) 15.South Africa (2010; I): Inchauste, Gabriela, Nora Lustig, Mashekwa Maboshe, Catriona Purfield and Ingrid Wollard The Distributional Impact of Fiscal Policy in South Africa. Policy Research Working Paper 7194, The World Bank, February. (May 5, 2014) 16.United States (2011, I): Higgins, S., N. Lustig, W. Ruble and T. Smeeding (2015), “Comparing the Incidence of Taxes and Social Spending in Brazil and the United States”, Review of Income and Wealth, forthcoming. 17.Uruguay (2009; I): Bucheli, Marisa, Nora Lustig, Máximo Rossi, and Florencia Amábile “Social Spending, Taxes and Income Redistribution in Uruguay.” In Lustig, Nora, Carola Pessino and John Scott Editors. The Redistributive Impact of Taxes and Social Spending in Latin America. Special Issue. Public Finance Review, May, Volume 42, Issue 3. (August 18, 2014) 35

Household Surveys Used in Country Studies 1.Argentina: National Household Survey on Incomes and Expenditures (ENGHo) (I) 2.Bolivia: Encuesta de Hogares, 2009 (I) 3.Brazil: Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares, 2009 (I) 4.Chile: Encuesta de Caracterización Social (CASEN), 2009 (I) 5.Colombia: Encuesta de Calidad de Vida, 2010 (I) 6.Costa Rica: Encuesta Nacional de Hogares, 2010 (I) 7.Ecuador: Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares Urbano y Rural, (I) 8.El Salvador: Encuesta De Hogares De Propositos Multiples, 2011 (I) 9.European Union: see EUROMOD statistics on Distribution and Decomposition of Disposable Income, 10.Guatemala: Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos Familiares, 2010 (I) 11.Honduras: Encuesta Permanente de Hogares de Propósitos Múltiples (EPHPEM), 2011 (I) 12.Indonesia: Survei Sosial-Ekonomi Nasional, 2012 (C) 13.Mexico: Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso y Gasto de los Hogares, 2010 (I) 14.Peru: Encuesta Nacional de Hogares, 2009 (I) 15.South Africa: Income and Expenditure Survey and National Income Dynamics Study, (I) 16.United States: Current Population Survey, 2011 (I) 17.Uruguay: Encuesta Continua de Hogares, 2009 (I) Note: The letters "I" and "C" indicate that the study used income or consumption data, respectively. 36

SIZE AND COMPOSITION OF GOVERNMENT REVENUES AND SPENDING

38 Government Revenues GNI per capita for Argentina in 2005 PPP Source: Lustig (2015b)

39 Public Spending GNI per capita for Argentina in 2005 PPP Source: Lustig (2015b)

40 Size and Composition of Government Budget GNI per capita for Argentina in 2005 PPP Source: Lustig (2015b)

41 Public Spending vs GNI Source: Lustig (2016)

FISCAL POLICY AND INEQUALITY

MARKET INCOME DISPOSABLE INCOME PLUS DIRECT TRANSFERS MINUS DIRECT TAXES PLUS INDIRECT SUBSIDIES MINUS INDIRECT TAXES POST-FISCAL or CONSUMABLE INCOME PLUS MONETIZED VALUE OF PUBLIC SERVICES: EDUCATION & HEALTH FINAL INCOME CEQ Assessment: Income Concepts 43

Fiscal Redistribution 44 Ginis for Chile are estimated using Total Income. Official figures of inequality are estimated using Monetary Income Source: Lustig (2016)

Fiscal Redistribution 45 Ginis for Chile are estimated using Total Income. Official figures of inequality are estimated using Monetary Income Source: Lustig (2016)

46 Fiscal Redistribution Ginis for Chile are estimated using Total Income. Official figures of inequality are estimated using Monetary Income Source: Lustig (2016)

47 Fiscal Redistribution Ginis for Chile are estimated using Total Income. Official figures of inequality are estimated using Monetary Income Source: Lustig (2016)

Redistributive Effect: from Mkt (pre-fisc) to Disposable Income 48 The Gini coefficients for the United States are for equivalized income. Ginis for Chile are estimated using Total Income. Official figures of inequality are estimated using Monetary Income Source: Lustig (2016)

Main messages  Extent of redistribution very heterogeneous: From Argentina (similar to the European Union) to Honduras (negligible)  Contributory Pensions can be equalizing or unequalizing (Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico) 49 Lambert, 2001; Lustig et al., forthcoming

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Main messages  The more unequal the more redistributive (no “Robin Hood paradox”)  The more social spending (as a share of GDP), the more redistributive 52 Lambert, 2001; Lustig et al., forthcoming

Main messages Analyzing the tax side without the spending side, or vice versa, is not very useful  A fiscal system can reduce inequality even in the presence of regressive interventions  A tax can be regressive but when combined with transfers not only make the system equalizing but EVEN more equalizing than without the regressive taxes: e.g, VAT in Chile  The above situation is known as the “Lambert conundrum” 53 Lambert, 2001; Lustig et al., forthcoming

54 Lustig (2016)

FISCAL POLICY AND POVERTY REDUCTION

56 Fiscal Policy and Poverty Reduction: Pensiones contributivas como ingreso diferido Source: Lustig (2016)

Fiscal Policy and Poverty Reduction: Pensiones contributivas como transferencia 57 Source: Lustig (2016)

Main messages Analyzing the impact on inequality only can be misleading  Fiscal systems can be equalizing but poverty increasing: Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras 58 Lustig, forthcoming

59 Higgins and Lustig (2015)

Fiscal Impoverishment ($1.25/day PPP 2005, Market to Consumable Income) 60 Market income + pensions poverty headcount FI headcount (among whole population) FI headcount among post fiscal poor FI per impoverished as proportion of income Poverty went up or down? Unambiguously progressive? Inequality went up or down? Bolivia (2009)10.9%6.6%63.2%15.2%DOWNYESDOWN Brazil (2009)6.5%0.4%10.3%7.7%DOWNYESDOWN Chile (2013)0.8%0.0%5.2%5.3%DOWNYESDOWN Ecuador (2011)3.4%0.1%4.1%4.4%DOWNYESDOWN El Salvador(2011)4.3%1.0%27.0%5.2%DOWNYESDOWN Guatemala (2010)12.0%7.0%62.2%6.4%DOWNYESDOWN Mexico (2012)4.9%0.8%23.7%14.8%DOWNYESDOWN Peru (2011)4.4%0.8%21.8%18.5%DOWNYESDOWN Higgins and Lustig (2015)

Main messages Analyzing the impact on traditional poverty indicators can be misleading  Fiscal systems can show a reduction in poverty and yet a substantial share of the poor could have been impoverished by the combined effect of taxes and transfers (in Bolivia and Guatemala the share is over 60 percent) 61 Higgins and Lustig (2015)

Progressivity of Education Spending 62 Source: Lustig (2016) Educ Total Pre-school Primary Secondary Tertiary Pro-poor CC is negative Same per capita for all; CC =0 Progressive CC positive but lower than market income Gini Pro-poor CC is negative Same per capita for all; CC =0 Progressive CC positive but lower than market income Gini Pro-poor CC is negative Same per capita for all; CC =0 Progressive CC positive but lower than market income Gini Pro-poor CC is negative Same per capita for all; CC =0 Progressive CC positive but lower than market income Gini Pro-poor CC is negative Same per capita for all; CC =0 Progressive CC positive but lower than market income Gini Regressive CC positive AND higher than market income Gini Argentina (2012) + nd + Bolivia (2009) Brazil (2009) Chile (2013) + nd Colombia (2010) nd Costa Rica (2010) nd Ecuador (2011) + nd + + El Salvador (2011) Guatemala ( 2011) Honduras (2011) Mexico (2010) Peru (2009) Uruguay (2009)

Progresivity of Health Spending 63 Source: Lustig (2016) Health Pro-poor CC is negative Same per capita for all; CC =0 Progressive CC positive but lower than market income Gini Argentina (2012) + Bolivia (2009) + Brazil (2009) + Chile (2013) + Colombia (2010) nd Costa Rica (2010) Ecuador (2011) + El Salvador (2011) + Guatemala ( 2011) + Honduras (2011) + Mexico (2010) + Peru (2009) + Uruguay (2009) +

Summing Up Latin America is very heterogeneous: – Government size, fiscal redistribution and fiscally induced poverty reduction vary quite a bit Contributory pensions can be either equalizing or unequalizing (Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico) Fiscal policy can be equalizing YET poverty increasing (Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala and Honduras) 64

Summing Up  Education spending per person tends to decline with income (“pro-poor”) or be the same across the income distribution  Middle-classes opting out?  Tertiary education spending is equalizing except for El Salvador and Guatemala  Health spending per person tends to decline with income (“pro-poor”) or be the same across the income distribution, except for El Salvador, Guatemala and Peru where although not unequalizing per capita spending increases with income 65

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