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The Usual Excess-Burden Approximation Usually Doesn't Come Close

Goulder, Lawrence H. - 1999

from taxes on intermediate inputs or consumer goods, and derives a practical alternative to this formula. We use an … analytically tractable general equilibrium model to reveal how interactions with pre-existing taxes in other markets critically … affect the excess burden of new taxes on intermediate inputs or consumer goods. The usual excess-burden formula ignores these …

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Tax Policy, Asset Prices, and Growth : A General Equilibrium Analysis

Goulder, Lawrence H. - 1987

This paper presents a multisector general equilibrium model that is capable of providing integrated assessments of the economy's short- and long- run responses to tax policy changes. The model contains an explicit treatment of firm's investment decisions according to which producers exhibit...

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Which Effective Tax Rate?

Fullerton, Don - 1983

effective tax rates, some studies estimate the additional taxes associated with a marginal increase in the inflation and … interest rates, while others estimate the additional taxes associated with a marginal increase in investment. Because there are …

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Corporate Taxation and the Distribution of Income

Hines, James R, Jr - 2020

Higher corporate taxes reduce corporate business operations, replacing them with operations by noncorporate businesses … higher corporate taxes can increase income inequality even when the corporate tax burden falls entirely on capital owned …

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"Tax Sparing" and Direct Investment in Developing Countries

Hines, James R, Jr - 1998

countries with whom Japan has agreements are entitled to claim foreign tax credits for income taxes that they would have paid to …

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Investment Ramifications of Distortionary Tax Subsidies

Hines, James R, Jr - 1998

This paper examines the investment effects of tax subsidies for which some assets and not others are eligible. Distortionary tax subsidies encourage firms to concentrate investments in tax-favored assets profitability of investment and reducing payoffs to bondholders in the event of default....

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Tax Policy and the Activities of Multinational Corporations

Hines, James R, Jr - 1996

choices. While taxes appear to influence a wide range of activity, the literature does not offer many subtle tests designed to …

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Interest Allocation Rules, Financing Patterns, and the Operations of U.S. Multinationals

Froot, Kenneth A. - 1994

This paper examines the impact of the 1986 change in U.S. interest allocation rules on the investment and financing decisions of American multinationals. The 1986 change reduced the tax deductibility of the interest expenses of firms with excess foreign tax credits. The resulting increase in the...

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Inputs to Tax Policymaking : The Supply Side, the Deficit, and the Level Playing Field

Fullerton, Don - 1990

Although supply side theory may have been obvious to economists, it instigated a major change in the nature of tax policymaking through marginal rate cuts in both the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 and the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Also, the 1981 bill was the culmination of an era in which...

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Distortionary Taxes and the Provision of Public Goods

Ballard, Charles L. - 1990

When comparing marginal costs and benefits of a public project, most economists think in terms of adding together the marginal costs of production plus marginal costs of additional distortionary taxation. This paper clarifies how the "revenue effect" offsets the "distortionary effect." For...

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