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is inelastic, which drives several key insights: the economic burden of taxation disproportionately falls on renters …
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With (automatic) exchange of tax information among countries now common, tax evaders have had to find new ways to hide their offshore holdings. One such way are citizenship-by-investment programs, which offer foreigners a new passport for a local investment or a fixed fee. We show analytically...
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Previous literature concludes that replacing wage taxation by taxes on a fixed factor or its rents benefits future … show that taxation of rents may also increase utility of the current generation provided tax revenues are earmarked to … prevailing tax mix is sufficiently skewed towards wage taxation …
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that anticipate the actual tax base incorrectly. I analyze the effects of stochastic taxation on investment behavior in a …
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This paper investigates how parametric reform in a pay-as-you-go pension system with a tax benefit link affects retirement incentives and work incentives of prime-age workers. We find that postponed retirement tends to harm incentives of prime-age workers in the presence of a tax benefit link,...
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We study the consequences of franchise extension and ballot reform for the size of government in Western Europe between 1820 and 1913. We find that franchise extension exhibits a U-shaped association with revenue per capita and a positive association with spending per capita. Instrumental...
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Taxes and cash transfers reduce income inequality more in France than elsewhere in the OECD, because of the large size of the flows involved. But the system is complex overall. Its effectiveness could be enhanced in many ways, for example so as to achieve the same amount of redistribution at...
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In this study we explore how a firm-level dividend tax on redistributed foreign profits affects the financial decisions of a multinational enterprise (MNE). We examine this by using evidence from a recent tax reform in Finland. The so-called equalization tax (EQT) used to be a regular element of...
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market outcome exhibits inefficient production and inefficient entry. A policy mix of three popular regulatory instruments—taxation … on polluters, feed-in tariffs for clean entrants, and taxation of consumption—cannot correct these two market failures …
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This paper examines the impact of thin capitalization rules that limit the tax deductibility of interest on the capital structure of the foreign affiliates of US multinationals. We construct a new data set on thin capitalization rules in 54 countries for the period 1982-2004. Using confidential...
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