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I estimate permanent and transitory tax-price and income elasticity of charitable giving in Germany using a rich panel … data of tax return for the years 2001-2006. Income tax reforms were implemented in 2004 and 2005. The results suggest that … the permanent tax-price elasticity varies significantly by income class, ranging from -0.2 for low incomes to -1.6 for …
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supply/demand model embedded in a detailed tax-benefit microsimulation model. We find that the reductions in net social … reduction of the social assistance withdrawal rate and an earnings-related tax credit. The expected employment and fiscal …
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treatment of families by the aggregate tax and transfer system can be regarded as "fair", we compare the equivalent incomes of … evidence for a privileged treatment of families with children and a low market income due to the earned income tax credit (EIC …), the child tax credit and the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP). If employment taxes are interpreted as …
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Government-financed health care (GFHC) expenditures, through Medicare and Medicaid, have grown from roughly zero to over 7.6 percent of national personal income over the past 50 years. Recently, some analysts (e.g., the Council of Economics Advisers (2014)) have argued that an expansion of GFHC...
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background, this paper puts forward a corporate microsimulation model allowing an ex-ante evaluation of tax reforms with regard … distribution effects of tax reforms. Whereas widely recognized concepts of effective tax measures can provide important insights … to supplement existing quantitative tax models by approaches apt for these issues of policy analysis. Against this …
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background, this paper puts forward a corporate microsimulation model allowing an ex-ante evaluation of tax reforms with regard … distribution effects of tax reforms. Whereas widely recognized concepts of effective tax measures can provide important insights … to supplement existing quantitative tax models by approaches apt for these issues of policy analysis. Against this …
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This paper examines the effects of management practices on effective tax rates (ETR) in a sample of medium and large … manufacturing firms in Ecuador. We use a novel data set on management practice scores matched with administrative tax data from the … Superintendence of Companies and the Internal Revenue Services of Ecuador based on firms' tax filings. We find that better management …
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spending on the provision of public goods may cause crowding out of private charitable contributions; and (2) tax incentives … may boost private charitable giving. For a rich sample of German income tax returns, we estimate elasticities of … charitable giving regarding tax incentives, income and governmental spending. Using censored quantile regression, we are able to …
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ACE regime in Germany. The simulation results show that granting an ACE for corporate income tax purposes results in a …In their famous Mirrlees review (2011) on reforming the tax system for the 21st century, the authors put forward the … feature of an ACE regime is that it removes tax distortions on marginal investment and finance distortions. Yet, by narrowing …
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