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Past attempts to measure the impact of taxes on corporate debt policy have focused on larger firms. Given that the top statutory corporate tax rate has varied little in recent years, tax incentives vary among these firms, almost entirely due to current or prospective tax losses. Results are...
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To study the effects of 'double taxation' (first at the corporation level, then at the shareholder level this paper analyzes a model with a tax on all corporate distributions to equity owners and no other taxes. Contrary to the common view, the tax is shown to have no substitution effect and, in...
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The empirical literature that seeks to measure the effective tax rate on new investment offers a striking paradox. On … the one hand, summary measures of the effective tax rate on new investment are normally quite high. On the other hand, the … tax rate on new investment. It is much more robust than the standard measures, such as King-Fullerton marginal effective …
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effect on domestic corporations. The paper examines the differential incentives the AMT creates for locating investment …
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. Finally, we explore the effects of corporate tax cuts on capital investment using data from the Annual Survey of Manufactures …. We find that tax cuts lead to an increase in real investment, suggesting a trade-off between investment and inequality at …
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In a sample of over 27 million establishments of U.S. firms with activities in more than one state, we estimate the impact of state business taxation on business activity. Only firms organized as subchapter C corporations are subject to the corporate tax code, whereas the income of partnerships,...
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Do corporate tax increases destroy jobs? And do corporate tax cuts boost employment? Answering these questions has proved empirically challenging. We propose an identification strategy that exploits variation in corporate income tax rates across U.S. states. Comparing contiguous counties...
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rates or an increase in investment tax credits. In contrast, companies in the service sector mostly use any tax windfall to …
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We take a first look at limitations on the use of energy-related tax credits contained in the General Business Credit (GBC) due to limitations within the regular corporate income tax as well as the AMT. Between 2000 and 2005, firms were unable to use all energy-related tax credits due to GBC...
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In theory, the U.S. tax system aims to attribute and tax all business income to individuals. But the tax treatment of this income varies. Pass-through income is taxed when earned; capital-gains income is taxed when realized; dividends when distributed; other forms of business income may escape...
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