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studies for profit-related taxes and are slightly lower for value-added taxes, whereas the long-run elasticity for wage taxes …
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estimate the taxable income elasticity at a very large kink point of the Swedish tax schedule using the bunching method. During … precise elasticity estimate of zero for wage earners at this large kink. The size of the kink allows us to derive tighter … bounds on the long-run elasticity than previous studies. If wage earners on average tolerate 1% of their disposable income in …
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Efforts to spur growth in sub-Sahara Africa have been intensified amid structural and institutional constraints. Tax revenue, the chief source of funding for developmental purposes in SSA remains low and unstable. In fact, the SSA sub-region finds it difficult generating tax revenue up to 20 per...
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This study aims to explain the variation in empirical estimates in the literature on the elasticity of foreign direct … appears to significantly affect the elasticity values. …
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. Even at the intensive margin, we find that the elasticity for women exceeds that for men. For men and women in the … Netherlands, we predict an uncompensated labour supply elasticity of 0.1 (or 0.2 if an alternative specification is preferred) and …
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seminal inverse-elasticity rule. First, we estimate the tax elasticity of the two tax bases using event-study and generalized … business profits. This suggests that municipality-level taxation in Germany is inconsistent with the inverse-elasticity rule …
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seminal inverse-elasticity rule. First, we estimate the tax elasticity of the two tax bases using event-study and generalized … business profits. This suggests that municipality-level taxation in Germany is inconsistent with the inverse-elasticity rule …
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initial response of revenue to changes in the bases is weak. In the case of wage tax it takes half a year for the elasticity …
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The need for the Ghanaian government to generate enough revenue for development is becoming increasingly crucial in this era of slow growth, growing unemployment and high debt. However, tax revenue performance over the years reveals an unstable pattern. One key factor that has been overlooked in...
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Would better state institutions increase tax collection, or would higher tax collection help improve state institutions? In the absence of conclusive guidance from theory, this paper searches for an empirical answer to this question, using a panel dataset covering 110 non-resource-rich countries...
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