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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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and higher taxes in the future. This paper uses the institutional setting of German fiscal federalism to its advantage in …
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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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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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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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Federal and state governments often differ in the capacity to pre-commit to expenditure and tax policy. Whether the implied sequence of public decisions has any efficiency implications is the subject of this paper. We resort to a setting which contrary to most of the literature does not exhibit...
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We exploit the 2017 US tax reform to learn about the tax-competitiveness of US multinational corporations (MNCs) relative to their international peers. Matching on the propensity score, we compare pairs of similar US and European firms listed on the S&P500 or StoxxEurope600 in a...
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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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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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A simple theory suggests that a common form of federal horizontal equalization grants should cause subnational governments to levy higher tax rates, distorting local tax bases and so increasing federal transfers. To test this, I examine Canadian provincial tax policies in the 1972-2002 period....
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