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Cai, Jing - 2011

"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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Tax Policy and Investment in a Global Economy

Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel; Smith, Matthew; Zidar, Owen M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

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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Taxes Depress Corporate Borrowing : Evidence from Private Firms

Ivanov, Ivan T.; Pettit, Luke; Whited, Toni Marion - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We use variation in state corporate income tax rates to re-examine the relation between taxes and corporate leverage …

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Effects of the Expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for Childless Young Adults on Material Wellbeing

Lee, Jiwan; Michelmore, Katherine; Pilkauskas, Natasha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

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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Wayfair : A Step Towards the Destination, But Sales Tax Competition Remains

Bruce, Donald J.; Fox, William F.; Shute, Alannah M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

enforce collection of sales taxes on a destination basis. This has reduced state tax competition with an essentially …

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Optimal Gradualism

Lehr, Nils H.; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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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Exporting Ideology : The Right and Left of Foreign Influence

Antràs, Pol; Padró i Miquel, Gerard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

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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Minimum Tax Rates and Tax Competition : Evidence from Property Tax Limits in Finland

Lyytikäinen, Teemu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper analyzes how minimum local property tax rates affect local tax policy choice. In Finland, central government has raised the limits on property tax rates several times in the past 30 years. I construct a measure of forced tax rate increases caused by these reforms and examine how...

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Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxation : Evidence from Colombia

Londoño Vélez, Juliana; Ávila Mahecha, Javier - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study behavioral responses to personal wealth taxes in Colombia. We utilize tax microdata from 1993 to 2016 linked …

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Taxing Top Wealth : Migration Responses and their Aggregate Economic Implications

Jakobsen, Katrine; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kolsrud, Jonas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using administrative data on wealth, firm ownership structure, and migration in Sweden and Denmark, we document international migration patterns among the very wealthy, their impact on the economy, and how they respond to wealth taxation. We show that more than 20% of taxpayers liable to pay...

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