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This paper analyses some fiscal aspects of mortgage debt in the EU. It first describes the main fiscal instruments that governments use to affect mortgage-financed home-ownership. In the empirical part, real mortgage debt growth is analysed for 15 EU countries using pooled regressions. Fiscal...
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crisis. In particular, it reviews the existing evidence on the links between taxes and many characteristics of the crisis …
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This paper presents new evidence on the impact of the preferential treatment of owner-occupied housing in Europe. We find that tax benefits to homeowners reduce the user cost of housing capital by almost 40 percent compared to the efficient level under neutral taxation. On average, the tax...
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trade costs and taxes in internal devaluations, which have been brought to the fore of international policy during the … Keynesian small open economy model with sticky wages and prices, incorporating trade costs and indirect taxes (allowing for VAT …; trade costs explain the failure to substantially raise exports, and taxes the initial small fall in exports …
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avoidance; but, if online firms remit taxes, online sales may put upward pressure on tax rates because internet sales help … enforce destination-based taxes. I find that higher internet penetration generally results in lower municipal tax rates, but … raises tax rates in some jurisdictions. The latter effect emerges in states where many online vendors remit taxes. A one …
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benchmark parameters, we find that the US can increase tax revenues by 30% by raising labor taxes and 6% by raising capital … income taxes. For the EU-14 we obtain 8% and 1%. Denmark and Sweden are on the wrong side of the Laffer curve for capital …
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consumption taxes in total tax revenues increases and this process have triggered higher tax burden on labor in most of the EU …
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, labor and consumption taxes. It touches on recent trends in income tax incentives for highly skilled workers, the challenges …
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In this paper we revisit the literature on the economic consequences from inefficiency in public services provision. Following Dupuit (1844) and Pigou (1947) we argue that it is important to take the financing side explicitly into account. The fact that public expenditure financing must rely on...
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This paper provides a theory and firm-level evidence on the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs in a model of taxes … (corporate and personal income taxes), corporate transparency, access to external capital and limited liability. We estimate …
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