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This paper examines the elasticity of tax revenue with respect to a marginal rate change, at both the individual and … aggregate level. The roles of the elasticity of taxable income (the behavioural effect on taxable income of a tax rise) and the … revenue elasticity (the structural effect on revenue of a change in taxable income) are highlighted. The revenue elasticity is …
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Estimates of marginal tax rates (MTRs) faced by individual economic agents, and for various ggregates of taxpayers, are important for economists testing behavioural responses to changes in those tax rates. This paper reports estimates of a number of personal marginal income tax rate measures for...
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elasticity, of around 0.9, is obtained for 2001 income levels. However, non-equiproportional income changes are more realistic …. Allowing for regression towards the geometric mean income reduces these elasticities, giving an elasticity for income and … of various excises has an important effect on the overall consumption tax revenue elasticity, especially for individuals …
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The redistributive and efficiency aspects of personal taxes are of particular interest to both economists and governments designing tax reforms. Traditionally however, the numerous analytical tools available to calculate distributional and efficiency effects of taxes and transfers are not widely...
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literature of the price elasticity of demand for sugary products. A plurality of studies found that groups most at risk from …
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This paper reports estimates of the elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate for New Zealand … tax base, provides helpful conditions for deriving these estimates. The elasticity of taxable income was estimated to be …
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This paper examines estimation of the elasticity of taxable income using instrumental variable regression methods. It …
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The main purpose of this paper is to supplement the existing literature by quantifying the elasticity of New Zealand … lower end of most estimates used in other studies. Given that the trade elasticity is a key variable in macro-balance models …
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The New Zealand Treasury forecasts tax revenue for the twice-yearly Economic and Fiscal Updates. The accuracy of these forecasts is important for the government's annual budget decisions as they affect key fiscal aggregates such as the operating balance and debt levels. Good decision-making in...
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This paper has two main aims. First, the poor targeting of a policy of zero-rating food in a goods and services tax (GST) is illustrated in a simple model where the revenue lost from zero-rating food is instead devoted to a universal transfer payment, with a larger effect on progressivity....
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