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The empirical literature that seeks to measure the effective tax rate on new investment offers a striking paradox. On … the one hand, summary measures of the effective tax rate on new investment are normally quite high. On the other hand, the … tax rate on new investment. It is much more robust than the standard measures, such as King-Fullerton marginal effective …
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In his Fisher-Schultz Lecture, Martin Feldstein examined the effects of non-neutral tax rules on business investment by … existing U.S. tax rules, substantially discouraged investment in the past 15 years." In a detailed examination of Feldstein … with the relatively robust levels of net investment between 1965 and 1981 actually shown in the newly benchmarked National …
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This paper overviews the issues connected with proposals to spur investment using tax incentives. There are four main … investment incentives approach $100 billion. (3) Measures to spur investment are likely to have substantial effects. The lags are … possible to spur investment with only a small revenue cost. It is crucial to take account of the effect of anticipated policy …
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To our knowledge, this paper provides the most comprehensive analysis of firm-level corporate income taxes to date. We use publicly available financial statement information for 11,602 public corporations from 82 countries from 1988 to 2009 to estimate country-level effective tax rates (ETRs)....
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This paper investigates the long-run incidence of the corporate income tax in an open-economy model calibrated with two economies: the United States and a larger mirror economy representing the rest of the world. Imperfect substitutability of domestic and foreign products plays a key role in...
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We estimate and attempt to explain the evolution of the taxes paid by U.S. multinationals on their foreign profits since 1966. In the oil sector, taxes paid to oil-producing States have been contained, allowing U.S. firms to earn high after-tax returns. Foreign taxes fell abruptly after the...
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This paper analyzes the interaction between corporate taxes and corporate governance. We show that the characteristics of a taxation system affect the extraction of private benefits by company insiders. A higher tax rate increases the amount of income insiders divert and thus worsens governance...
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Performance pay for tax collectors has the potential to raise revenues, but might come at a cost if taxpayers face undue pressure from collectors. We report the first large-scale field experiment on these issues, where we experimentally allocated 482 property tax units in Punjab, Pakistan into...
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Natural-resource taxation and investment exhibit cycles in a vast number of countries, driving political turmoil and … investments, which in turn prompts it to increase taxes next period. This induces low investment thus low future taxes, and so on …
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In a sample of over 27 million establishments of U.S. firms with activities in more than one state, we estimate the impact of state business taxation on business activity. Only firms organized as subchapter C corporations are subject to the corporate tax code, whereas the income of partnerships,...
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