Peru 🇵🇪 has developed one of the most regressive tax systems in the world, characterized by low top marginal rates on income and inheritance and a limited capacity for redistribution. This is one of the key findings of @ccastgr.bsky.social's paper ▶️ wid.world/news-article... Spanish coverage ⬇️🧵
wid.worldConflicting Claims and Taxation: A Distributive History of 20th Century Peru - WID - World Inequality DatabaseCésar Castillo-García reconstructs Peru’s factor income shares and macroeconomic aggregates from 1942 to 2022 using the Distributional National Accounts (DINA) methodology and historical national acco...