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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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The Rise of Pass-Throughs and the Decline of the Labor Share

Smith, Matthew; Yagan, Danny; Zidar, Owen M.; Zwick, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper studies the coevolution of the fall in the US corporate sector labor share and the rise of business activity in tax-preferred, pass-through form. Reallocating activity to the form it would have taken prior to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 accounts for one third of the decline in the...

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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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The Tax Elasticity of Capital Gains and Revenue-Maximizing Rates

Agersnap, Ole - 2020

This paper uses an event study approach to estimate the effect of capital gains taxation on realizations at the state level, and then develops a framework for determining revenue-maximizing rates at the federal level. We find that the elasticity of revenues with respect to the tax rate over a...

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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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Do Tax Cuts Starve the Beast : The Effect of Tax Changes on Government Spending

Romer, Christina D. - 2007

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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The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes : Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks

Romer, Christina D. - 2007

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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"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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