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on transfers and public goods are each integrated into a common optimal tax framework with the income tax and commodity … taxes at the core. Additional topics addressed include a range of dynamic issues, the unit of taxation, tax administration … and enforcement, and tax equity …
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We provide estimates of the impact and long-run elasticities of tax base with respect to tax rates for four large U … initial increase in local tax rates. A significant negative impact (current period) effect of a balanced budget increase in … city property tax rates on city property base is interpreted as a capitalization effect and suggests that marginal …
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options. In this paper, we examine the extent to which tax policy has influenced the composition of executive compensation …, and discuss the implications of rising stock-based pay for tax policy. We begin by describing the tax rules for executive … pay in detail and analyzing how changes in various tax rates affect the tax advantages of stock options relative to salary …
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$2.56 billion more than the $4.79 billion they raise in tax revenues. These taxes are raised from wireless consumers and … taxes. Prospective taxes will impose an efficiency loss of $0.72-$1.14 per additional dollar of tax revenue raised …
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Competitive exams are a standard method for selecting civil servants. Yet, evidence on the effectiveness of such approach is mixed, and lack of personnel data limits our understanding of the mechanisms underlying this varying success. We digitize personnel and financial data to study the impacts...
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effect of an SSB tax on the consumption and BMI of youth in Mauritius, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, which we compare … to Maldives, another island nation in the Indian Ocean which did not implement an SSB tax during the time of our data …. Results of difference-in-differences models indicate that the tax in Mauritius had no detectable impact on the consumption of …
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Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....
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Equilibrium in the market for real assets requires that the price of those assets be bid up to reflect the tax shields … its implications for the comparison of bankruptcy costs versus tax shields …
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because the small increments in all future tax rates to finance interest payments involves a smaller excess burden than the … single large tax rate increase that would be required to avoid an initial increase in the national debt. This argument … tax rates can be explicitly balanced against the disadvantage of the excess burden that arises from additional debt. The …
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This paper explores the implications of tax rate uncertainty, identifying circumstances in which revenue-neutral tax … heterogeneous taxpayers, tax rate variability is shown to perform an efficiency-enhancing screening function, imposing heavier … expected tax burdens on less responsive taxpayers. And while efficient tax uncertainty enables governments to reduce average …
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