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Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are relatively new and there is little evidence about their impact on SSB … the effect of SSB taxes on youth consumption, and contribute to the limited evidence base on the impact of SSB taxes on …
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"We explore the impact of a tax reform in some provinces of China which eliminated the value-added tax on some investment goods. While the goal of the experiment was to encourage upgrading of technology, our results suggest that there was no evident increase overall in fixed investment, and...
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," we estimated tax multipliers using (i) a novel dataset on value-added taxes for 51 countries (21 industrial and 30 … companion paper first shows that these findings have important policy implications, given that the initial level of taxes varies …
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We exploit the unexpected announcement of an immediate, temporary VAT cut in Germany in the second half of 2020 as a natural experiment to study the spending response to unconventional fiscal policy. We use survey and scanner data on households' consumption expenditures and their perceived...
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2011 from the State Taxation Administration. We first document the importance of different business taxes across industries …. While corporate income taxes play an important role for manufacturing firms, these firms also remit a large share of their … tax payments through the value-added tax system, through the excise tax system and through payroll taxes. Gross receipts …
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are taxed but input taxes are rebated on exports (as currently). Under an origin basis imports are not taxed, but no … between consumption and production taxes, but neutrality only holds when trade is balanced. In the unbalanced trade case for …
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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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Unconventional fiscal policy uses announcements of future increases in consumption taxes to generate inflation …
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On the identification front, our findings favor the use of narratives à la Romer and Romer (2010) to identify exogenous fiscal shocks as opposed to the identification via SVAR. On the (much less explored) measurement front, our results strongly support the use of tax rates as a true measure of...
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This paper focuses on two core tax design issues that arise in addressing current fiscal challenges It first explores the idea, prominent in troubled Eurozone countries, of a 'fiscal devaluation:' shifting from social contributions to the VAT as a way to mimic a nominal devaluation. Empirical...
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