Abstract
Consumer price indices adjusted for changes of the rates of indirect taxes and subsidies play an important part in socio-economic life. A so-called table-adjustment factor is used in the Netherlands for the establishment of the inflation correction of e.g. income tax. The use of the adjusted consumer price index for the purpose of wage indexation constitutes a second application. The background for and use of adjusted indices in the Netherlands can illustrate various related problems.
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