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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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Income taxes are typically set to raise revenues and redistribute income at the lowest possible efficiency costs, which … result from the distortions in individual behaviors that taxes entail. Individuals can respond along many margins, such as … labor supply, tax avoidance and evasion, and geographic mobility. But one margin that taxes may affect -- innovation -- is …
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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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We use a new dataset consisting of the universe of Greek corporate tax returns matched to financial statements to study a voluntary tax compliance program for small firms. This "self-assessment" program prescribed target taxable profit margins for different types of activity. Firms that reported...
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use to think about income and estate taxes. To that end, I run large-scale online surveys and experiments on … to taxes: efficiency effects, distributional implications, and fairness considerations. But they also elicit broader … concerns that could influence policy views, such as misperceptions, views of government, perceived spillovers from taxes, and …
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Tax policies are a wide array of tools, commonly used by governments to influence the economy. In this paper, we review the many margins through which tax policies can affect innovation, the main driver of economic growth in the long-run. These margins include the impact of tax policy on i) the...
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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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The hypothesis that decreases in taxes reduce future government spending is often cited as a reason for cutting taxes …. However, because taxes change for many reasons, examinations of the relationship between overall measures of taxation and …
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This paper investigates the impact of changes in the level of taxation on economic activity. We use the narrative record -- presidential speeches, executive-branch documents, and Congressional reports -- to identify the size, timing, and principal motivation for all major postwar tax policy...
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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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