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This paper embeds the analysis of fiscal redistribution (FR) within the standard social welfare framework (SWF), which lends itself to a transparent and practical evaluation of the determinants of FR. Differences in FR are decomposed into differences in  fiscal effort  (the magnitude of redistributive transfers) and in  fiscal progressivity  (the distribution of net transfers across different income groups). Progressivity is further decomposed into  targeting performance  (the share of net transfers accruing to lower-income groups) and  targeting returns  (the social returns to targeting due to differences in the initial income inequality). This highlights the possibility that countries with the exact same  redistributive effort  (fiscal effort and targeting performance) can have very different levels of FR simply because they have very different levels of initial income inequality. High levels of FR in a country may therefore reflect that it has ‘more to do’ (high initial inequality) as opposed to it ‘doing more’. To illustrate, the paper decomposes differences in FR across 28 EU countries to isolate the importance of initial income inequality in explaining these differences. It also shows how the SWF can be straightforwardly used to test for the existence of the  Paradox of Redistribution .

Fiscal redistribution, social welfare and income inequality: ‘doing more’ or ‘more to do’?