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Comparing Average and Marginal Tax Rates Under the FairTax and the Current System of Federal Taxation
Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2005
This paper compares marginal and average tax rates on working and saving under our current federal tax system with those that would arise under a federal retail sales tax, specifically the FairTax. The FairTax would replace the personal income, corporate income, payroll, and estate and gift...
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Effects of home country tax reform on FDI inflows to South Korea : a synthetic control method approach
Yang, JinHyuk; Kang, Youngho - In: Economics letters 225 (2023), pp. 1-5
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The Role of Indicators in Structural Surveillance
1990
considerations. Potential indicators are examined for six areas -- taxation, trade, industry, agriculture, labour markets and …
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Increasing Efficiency and Reducing Complexity in the Tax System in the United States
Herd, Richard - 2001
of improvements that could help reduce the distortions that taxation creates in the economy and so boost long …-run economic performance. The most noticeable gains could come from reforming the taxation of the income from capital. Savings are … income depending on the sector in which it is invested and the financing instruments that are used. In addition, taxation of …
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Who Pays Sin Taxes? : Understanding the Overlapping Burdens of Corrective Taxes
Conlon, Christopher; Rao, Nirupama L.; Wang, Yinan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We find that sin good purchases are highly concentrated with 10% of households paying more than 80% of taxes on alcohol and cigarettes. Total sin tax burdens are poorly explained by demographics (including income), but are well explained by eight household clusters defined by purchasing...
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Which Effective Tax Rate?
Fullerton, Don - 1983
In estimating the effects of capital income taxation, different studies measure different effective tax rates. This …
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Investment in Energy Infrastructure and the Tax Code
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2009
Federal tax policy provides a broad array of incentives for energy investment. I review those policies and construct estimates of marginal effective tax rates for different energy capital investments as of 2007. Effective tax rates vary widely across investment classes. I then consider...
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How Far Are We From The Slippery Slope? The Laffer Curve Revisited
Trabandt, Mathias - 2009
We compare Laffer curves for labor and capital taxation for the US, the EU-14 and individual European countries, using …
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Effective Tax Rates in Macroeconomics : Cross-Country Estimates of Tax Rates on Factor Incomes and Consumption
Mendoza, Enrique G. - 1994
This paper proposes a method for computing tax rates using national accounts and revenue statistics. Using this method we construct time-series of tax rates for large industrial countries. The method identifies the revenue raised by different taxes at the general government level and defines...
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Fiscal Reform and Government Debt in Japan : A Neoclassical Perspective
Hansen, Gary - 2013
Past government spending in Japan is currently imposing a significant fiscal burden that is reflected in a net debt to output ratio near 150 percent. In addition, the aging of Japanese society implies that public expenditures and transfers payments relative to output are projected to continue to...
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