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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">jssi</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2029-7017</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2029-7017</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>LKA</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">JSSI417</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.9770/jssi.2014.4.1(7)</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Evaluation of Social, Economic and Fiscal Impact on Incentives of Personal Taxation in Lithuania</article-title>
      </title-group>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Bikas</surname>
            <given-names>Egidijus</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:egidijusvln@gmail.com">egidijusvln@gmail.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jssi_aff_000"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_jssi_aff_000">Vilnius University, Faculty of Economics, Sauletekio 9 LT-10223, Vilnius, Lithuania</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Subačienė</surname>
            <given-names>Rasa</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:rasa.subaciene@ef.vu.lt">rasa.subaciene@ef.vu.lt</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jssi_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_jssi_aff_001">Vilnius University, Faculty of Economics, Sauletekio 9 LT-10223, Vilnius, Lithuania</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Astrauskaitė</surname>
            <given-names>Ieva</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:ieva.vasara@gmail.com">ieva.vasara@gmail.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jssi_aff_002"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_jssi_aff_002">Vilnius University, Faculty of Economics, Sauletekio 9 LT-10223, Vilnius, Lithuania</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Keliuotytė-Staniulėnienė</surname>
            <given-names>Greta</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:g.keliuotyte@gmail.com">g.keliuotyte@gmail.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jssi_aff_003"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_jssi_aff_003">Vilnius University, Faculty of Economics, Sauletekio 9 LT-10223, Vilnius, Lithuania</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>4</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>79</fpage>
      <lpage>95</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2014</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2014</year>
      </pub-date>
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      <abstract>
        <p>Tax incentive is optional but highly important element of taxation, used in order to achieve different goals. On the one hand, tax incentives form tax expenditures and thus reduce budget revenue; on the other hand, they influence behavior of persons and businesses and may have positive or negative social and economic effect. This article analyzes the incentives of personal taxation in Lithuania and their social, economic and fiscal impact. The study was conducted using the method of descriptive and factor analysis. The results revealed economic impact of tax incentives applicable in Lithuania.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>tax incentives</kwd>
        <kwd>tax expenditure</kwd>
        <kwd>social</kwd>
        <kwd>fiscal</kwd>
        <kwd>economic impact</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
      <kwd-group kwd-group-type="JEL">
        <label>JEL</label>
        <kwd>K36</kwd>
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