A tax amnesty can be a useful tax policy tool when exploited in exceptional circumstances. Amnesties can also be used systematically as a discriminatory mechanism to improve the efficiency or even the equity of the tax system, but only if government commitment to enforcing tax law is credible....

This article reviews research on the taxation of electronic commerce, with a focus on sales taxes in the USA (where retailers are not always obligated to collect sales taxes for online sales). The literature has found evidence that sales taxes have large effects on buying behaviour online, which...

This paper studies comprehensive national panel data of local option sales taxes at the monthly frequency. I calculate state-by-month population weighted averages of local sales tax rates. I document ten stylized facts concerning the time series patterns and spatial dynamics of local sales...

Because policymakers may consider the state of the economy when setting taxes, endogeneity bias can arise in regression models that estimate relationships between economic variables and taxes. This paper quantifies the policy endogeneity bias and estimates the impact of R&D tax incentives on R&D...

This paper studies comprehensive national panel data of local option sales taxes at the monthly frequency. I calculate state-by-month population weighted averages and standard deviations of local sales tax rates. I document ten stylized facts concerning the time series patterns and spatial...

This paper investigates the tax harmonization in the European Union in the context of the Economic Crisis. The aim is to analyze an evolution of taxes with the greatest harmonizing tendencies. Two of them are indirect taxes – VAT and excise tax, and one is direct tax – corporate income tax....

“El sistema tributario ha sido el centro de numerosos estudios, debates y propuestas de reforma que no han logrado el grado de consenso que se requiere para llevarlas a la práctica. Este estudio hace un análisis del sistema tributario colombiano y presenta una serie de propuestas para su...

“Colombia ha observado un preocupante deterioro de la mayor parte de sus indicadores fiscales, situación confrontada principalmente mediante la introducción de diversas reformas tributarias. La preocupación por el estado de las finanzas públicas ha llevado a concentrar el análisis en las...

Tax Burden, defined as the ratio of total tax revenues over personal income, is prominently used to summarize state tax policy. We analyze the empirical relationship between changes in Tax Burden and changes in state tax policy from 1987 to 2000 – as measured by states’ own forecasts of the...