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The idea that marginal tax rates and tax revenue may be inversely related is at least as old as Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. The emergence of the "Laffer Curve" in the modern public debate on the subject has rekindled interestin this idea. The present paper uses data from the 1982 tax rate...
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The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 mandated the most substantial reduction in personal income tax rates since the tax cuts of 1964. The rate reductions stimulated debates about the responsiveness of taxpayers to tax rates and incentives, the magnitude of the foregone revenue, and the...
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The recent proposal for tax reform developed by the Department of the Treasury suggests dramatic changes in the structure of the personal income tax. One likely side effect of the changes will be a significant adverse impact on the level of charitable contributions by individuals.This paper...
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When the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates binds, monetary policy cannot provide appropriate stimulus. We show that in the standard New Keynesian model, tax policy can deliver such stimulus at no cost and in a time-consistent manner. There is no need to use inefficient policies such as...
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This paper considers the impact of federal deductibility on the level and composition of state and local taxes. It also …
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We analyze the dynamic macroeconomic effects of border adjustment taxes, both when they are a feature of corporate tax … reform (C-BAT) and for the case of value added taxes (VAT). Our analysis arrives at the following main conclusions. First, C …. Lastly, border taxes increase government revenues in periods of trade deficit, however, given the net foreign asset position …
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Gasoline taxes can be employed to correct externalities from automobile use and to raise government revenue. Our … understanding of the optimal gasoline tax and the efficacy of existing taxes is largely based on empirical analysis of consumer … responses to gasoline price changes. In this paper, we directly examine how gasoline taxes affect gasoline consumption as …
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We show that even when the exchange rate cannot be devalued, a small set of conventional fiscal instruments can robustly replicate the real allocations attained under a nominal exchange rate devaluation in a dynamic New Keynesian open economy environment. We perform the analysis under...
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The incidence of taxes on consumers and producers plays a central role in evaluating energy tax policy, yet the … state gasoline and diesel taxes to retail prices, and importantly we estimate the dependence of pass-through on factors … constrained, and the constraint is plausibly unrelated to shifts in demand, the pass-through rate of fuel taxes declines. We …
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In 2018, California voters rejected Proposition 6, a ballot initiative that sought to repeal state gasoline taxes and … transportation and energy taxes than liberal areas, heterogeneity in the response to economic burdens has important implications for … the popular support for environmental taxes and the ongoing policy debate about how to finance future road infrastructure …
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