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This paper explores the implications of tax rate uncertainty, identifying circumstances in which revenue-neutral tax rate variability increases profitability, economic activity, and the efficiency of resource allocation. Furthermore, with heterogeneous taxpayers, tax rate variability is shown to...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Deferral of U.S. taxes on foreign source income is commonly characterized as a subsidy to foreign investment, as …
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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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