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Rising self-employment rates in U.S. tax data that are absent in survey data have led to speculation that tax records capture a rise in new "gig" work that surveys miss. Drawing on the universe of IRS tax returns, we show that trends in firm-reported payments to "gig" and other contract workers...
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Researchers often test firm conduct models using pass-through regressions or instrumental variables (IV) methods. The former has limited applicability; the latter relies on potentially irrelevant instruments. We show the falsifiable restriction underlying the IV method generalizes the...
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, and the general public to increase taxes on the ultra-wealthy. Our findings reveal significant misperceptions about …
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"We explore the impact of a tax reform in some provinces of China which eliminated the value-added tax on some investment goods. While the goal of the experiment was to encourage upgrading of technology, our results suggest that there was no evident increase overall in fixed investment, and...
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We evaluate the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Combining reduced-form estimates from tax data with a global investment model, we estimate responses, identify parameters, and conduct counterfactuals. Domestic investment of firms with the mean tax change increases 20% versus a no-change baseline. Due...
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We use variation in state corporate income tax rates to re-examine the relation between taxes and corporate leverage …
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In 2021, the U.S. Congress temporarily expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit for workers without a qualifying child (childless EITC), to help counteract the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lower-wage working adults. This expansion roughly tripled the maximum benefits for qualifying filers and...
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enforce collection of sales taxes on a destination basis. This has reduced state tax competition with an essentially …
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gains from inducing a more gradual transition via temporary taxes on trade and technology, and provide formulas for the … optimal path for taxes. Our formulas account for the possibility that reallocation effort responds to policy, and for the … existence of income taxes and assistance programs. Using these formulas, we compute the optimal temporary taxes needed to …
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international capital mobility. The model highlights the role of ideology in shaping both the taxes implemented by governments and … the cross-border externalities of these policy choices. Pro-capital governments set lower capital taxes than pro …-labor governments. Importantly, pro-capital governments benefit from other countries setting low capital taxes, while pro …
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