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This paper attempts to address two long standing questions in Public Finance: (i) why is the property tax, despite popular complaints about its fairness, the almost exclusive tax instrument used by local governments, and (ii) why do we consistently observe higher levels of governments undermine...
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mostly target investment, job creation, and research and development. Collectively, these incentives amounted to nearly 40 … prevalent, subsidies are no longer as closely tied to firm investment. If subsidy deals do not lead to high spillovers …
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The standard international tax model is extended to allow for heterogeneous firms when agglomeration forces are important thus allowing us to study the relocation effects of taxes that vary according to firm size. We show that allowing for heterogeneity permits a given tax scheme to have an...
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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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presents a dynamic analysis of the impact of taxation on investment when gains and losses are treated asymmetrically. The …
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reforms on the 30 Dow Jones companies. The estimates are all based on extensions of Tobin's "q Theory of Investment" to take … results here provide strong microeconometric support for the q theory of investment. The q theory approach provides a superior … valuation and investment plans of individual firms. The methods are applied to estimate the effects of alternative corporate tax …
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's q theory of investment. As Tobin has explained, aggregate investment can be expected to depend in a stable way on q, the … return on physical capital raise its market value and cause increased investment until equilibrium is restored. Although … models linking the stock market to investment have been estimated, they have not previously been used to examine the impact …
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decisions) and therefore uses a consistent instrumental variable procedure. This use of instrumental variable estimation …
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Although states and localities collect a substantial amount of revenue from corporate profits taxes and property taxes on corporate capital, these taxes have been inadequately reflected in previous calculations of the effective corporate tax rate and the pretax rate of return to corporate...
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Federal deductibility for state and local taxes constitutes one of the largest tax expenditures in the federal budget and provides a significant source of federal support to state and local governments. Deductibility was restricted in the Tax Reform Act of 1986 by removing the deduction for...
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