A study into a household tax credit deduction carried out by the Tax Administration has found that the initiative is not achieving either of its stated objectives and is instead disproportionately benefitting high- income earners. The purpose of the credit is to improve employment in the sectors covered by the deduction - such as childcare and cleaning- and also to hamper the ‘grey economy’, which is defined as the part of the economy that is neither taxed nor monitored by either national or regional government.
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