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Taxation of insurance
Christiansen, Vidar - 2017
Should we exempt the services of insurance companies from VAT? Addressing this issue, the paper distinguishes between … insurance against a general loss of resources and a loss of a specific commodity (property insurance). There is a case for … exempting the former kind of insurance, but not the latter. Finally, comparing insurance through a producer warranty with …
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Indirect taxation of financial services
Christiansen, Vidar - 2017
An important question is whether VAT exemption of financial services is a desirable property or whether it is justified only due to practical and administrative necessity. This paper singles out a number of financial services for discussion of this issue in a context allowing for other taxes and...
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Input versus output taxation in an experimental international economy
Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2003
This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an international economy with a relatively small home country and a large foreign country. It compares the economic performance of two alternative tax systems as a means to finance unemployment benefits: a...
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The internet as a tax haven?
Agrawal, David R. - 2021
If online transactions are tax-free, increased online shopping may lower tax rates as jurisdictions seek to reduce tax 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...
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Sales taxation, spatial agglomeration, and the Internet
Agrawal, David R.; Wildasin, David E. - 2019
Technological innovations facilitating e-commerce have well-documented effects on consumer behavior and firm organization in the retail sector, but the effects of these new transaction technologies on fiscal systems remain unknown. By extending models of commodity tax competition to include...
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Will destination-based taxes be fully exploited when available? : an application to the U.S. commodity tax system
Agrawal, David R.; Mardan, Mohammed - 2018
We develop a tax competition model that allows for the setting of both an origin-based and a destination-based commodity tax rate in the presence of avoidance and evasion. In the presence of evasion, jurisdictions will give cross-border shoppers tax preferential treatment, thus not fully...
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Taxing goods and services in a digital era
Agrawal, David R.; Fox, William F. - 2020
Taxing consumption in the digital economy poses unique challenges for fiscal authorities. Recent institutional reforms, such as states changing remittance rules for the sales and use tax following the Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, were enacted in order to increase tax...
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Online shopping can redistribute local tax revenue from urban to rural America
Agrawal, David R.; Shybalkina, Iuliia - 2023
What is the effect of e-commerce on the geographic distribution of local sales tax revenues? Using COVID-19 as a shock to online shopping and hand-collected high-frequency data on local sales tax revenue, we document an important shift in the state and local public finance landscape. As...
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Remittance rules and the distribution of local tax revenue : evidence after wayfair
Agrawal, David R.; Shybalkina, Iuliia - 2024
Requiring firms, rather than individuals, to remit sales taxes improves tax compliance. In the U.S., this shift toward firm-based remittance rules for remote purchases occurred gradually after South Dakota v. Wayfair. Using comprehensive and high-frequency local sales tax revenue data, we show...
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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, April 2015
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … reveal that the insurance component contributes significantly to optimal labor tax rates and provides an informative lower …
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