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U.S. businesses can choose to be C-corporations or pass-through entities in the forms of S-corporations, partnerships (notably LLCs), and sole proprietorships. C-corporate status conveys benefits from perpetual legal identity, limited liability, potential for public trading of shares, and...
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We study the effects of corporate taxes on income inequality. Using state corporate taxes as a setting, we provide evidence that corporate tax cuts lead to increases in income inequality. This result is robust across regression, matching, and synthetic controls approaches, and to controlling for...
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-tax locations leads to profit relocation to ‘next-best’ low-tax countries, allowing firms to circumvent domestic taxation. We do not …
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-tax sorting preferences, US households are effectively insulated from Swiss income taxation due to the US world-wide income tax …
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Forward looking measures like the well-known effective marginal tax rate developed by King and Fullerton (1984) are often criticized for not taking into account the complexity of the tax law. This paper derives a method of evaluating this kind of measure and of quantifying the bias resulting...
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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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This paper presents empirical evidence against the popular perception that macro volatility is exogenous. We obtain tax effects on macro aggregates in the stochastic neoclassical model. Taxes are shown to affect the second moment of output growth rates without affecting the first moment....
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Despite its theoretical merits, Land Value Taxation (LVT) is not a common policy instrument in most countries. One of … literature, due to a lack of appropriate data at the household level. We overcome this obstacle by the construction of a unique … household level dataset for a sample of German homeowners in 2017. The data collected allows us to study the differences in …
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This study calculates efficient taxes on gasoline and road use designed to combat driving related externalities when motorists avoid taxes due to an excessive economic driving-style. The efficient tax on gasoline is reduced below the Pigouvian rate due to such avoidance. The current US tax rate...
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This paper exploits a recent devolution of tax setting powers in the German federation to study the effects of fiscal equalization on subnational governments’ tax policy. Based on an analysis of the system of fiscal equalization transfers, we argue that the redistribution of revenues provides...
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