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We show strong overall and heterogeneous economic incidence effects, as well as distortionary effects, of only shifting statutory incidence (i.e., the agent on which taxes are levied), without any tax rate change. For identification, we exploit a tax change and administrative data from the...
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The treatment of banking services as VAT exempted is a dominant model and common practice among EU member countries mainly due to the technical difficulties of calculating value added and applying the general credit - invoice method of VAT taxation. Not charging VAT on banking sector results in...
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past few years. Design/methodology/approach - The estimation approach used is a Two-Stage-Least Squares Instrumental … justifying the choice of the estimation approach with a Hausman-test for endogeneity. In the second-step, we verify that the …) estimation with robust Heteroscedasticity and Autocorrelation Consistent (HAC) standard errors; and (3) adoption of two …
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This paper studies the impact of a financial transactions tax on a financial market where financial institutions trade with each other. Assets are marked to the market and financial institutions with negative equity are forced out of business. There are two main results: First, if all banks have...
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This is the first analysis of the incidence of a bank tax that is imposed on banks' balance sheets. Within the framework of an oligopolistic version of the Monti-Klein model, the pass-through of a bank tax levied on loans is stronger when elasticity of credit demand is low. To test this...
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In this paper, we revisit the question of the banks' ability to shift corporate income taxes to customers by increasing their net interest margins. We estimate tax incidence for 1,411 European commercial banks over the period 1992-2008. Unlike earlier studies which suffer from endogeneity...
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How do taxes in the financial sector affect economic outcomes? We analyze a simple general equilibrium model with financial intermediation. We formalize a trade-off between tax policies that burden the owners of banks and tax policies that burden households. We also study the implications of the...
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How do taxes in the financial sector affect economic outcomes? We analyze a simple general equilibrium model with financial intermediation. We formalize a trade-off between tax policies that burden the owners of banks and tax policies that burden households. We also study the implications of the...
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of policy options in financial dynamics (of money, credit, efficiency and size) on consumer prices. Soaring food prices have marked the geopolitical landscape of African countries in the past decade. Design/methodology/approach - We...
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