Tax Expenditure Estimation Tool Kit

This publication is designed to help tax analysts estimate revenue losses from tax expenditures and tax incentives. It presents the methodologies commonly used to estimate revenues forgone using varying sources of data. It discusses tax expenditure definitions, issues related to benchmarking and building an inventory of tax expenditures, and estimation methodologies using stylized models to show how to calculate revenues forgone when a tax concession is granted. The publication also provide...