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Pay or Pray? The Impact of Charitable Subsidies on Religious Attendance
Gruber, Jonathan - 2004
The economic argument for subsidizing charitable giving relies on the positive externalities of charitable activities, particularly from the religious institutions that are the largest recipients of giving. But the net external effects of subsidies to religious giving will also depend on a...
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The Effects of the Length of the Tax-Loss Carryback Period on Tax Receipts and Corporate Marginal Tax Rates
Graham, John R. - 2009
We investigate how the length of the net operating loss carryback period affects corporate liquidity and marginal tax … financial industries. Extending the carryback period would increase the marginal tax rate of loss firms by more than 200 basis …
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Understanding U.S. Corporate Tax Losses
Altshuler, Rosanne - 2008
Recent data present a puzzle: the ratio of corporate tax losses to positive income was much higher around 2001 than in earlier recessions. Using a comprehensive 1982-2005 sample of U.S. corporation tax returns, we explore a variety of potential explanations for this surge in tax losses, taking...
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Tax Loss Carryforwards and Corporate Tax Incentives
Auerbach, Alan J. - 1986
This paper investigates the extent to which loss-offset constraints affect corporate tax incentives. Using data … sector had tax loss carryforwards. When weighted by their market value, however, these firms account for less than three … percent of this sector, suggesting that loss carryforwards are concentrated among small firms and affect relatively few large …
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Ending the Euro Crisis?
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2015
All of the attempts to end the euro crisis and to return the Eurozone countries to healthy growth rates of income and employment have failed. The options that are currently being discussed are not likely to be more successful
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Tax Enforcement and Tax Policy : Evidence on Taxpayer Responses to EITC Correspondence Audits
Guyton, John - 2018
Each year, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sends notices to selected taxpayers who claim Earned Income Tax credit (EITC) benefits to request additional documentation to verify those claims. This paper uses administrative tax data to examine the impacts of these correspondence...
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Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The philanthropic sector is highly consequential, particularly in the United States, and the most important policies directed toward this sector are tax policies. Yet most economic analysis of the optimal tax treatment of charitable giving is ad hoc, treating it as a subject unto itself. This...
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Tax Incentives for Charitable Giving : New Findings from the TCJA
Han, Xiao; Hungerman, Daniel M.; Wilhelm, Mark Ottoni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act eliminated federal charitable giving incentives for roughly 20 percent of US income-tax payers. We study the impact of this on giving. Basic theory and our empirical results suggest heterogeneous effects for taxpayers with different amounts of itemizable expenses....
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Income Tax Provisions Affecting Owner-Occupied Housing : Revenue Costs and Incentive Effects
Poterba, James M. - 2008
The mortgage interest deduction, the property tax deduction, the unique treatment of capital gains on owner-occupied homes, and the absence of taxation on imputed rent from owner-occupied homes all influence the effective cost of housing services. They also affect federal income tax revenues and...
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U.S. Defense Contracts During the Tax Expenditure Battles of the 1980s
Guthrie, Susan - 2008
This paper considers the impact of the tax treatment of U.S. military contractors. Prior to the early 1980s, taxpayers were permitted to use the completed contract method of accounting to defer taxation of profits earned on long term contracts. Legislation passed in 1982, 1986 and 1987 required...
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