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States levy insurance premium taxes, which are essentially gross receipt taxes on premiums. A very unusual characteristic of insurance premium taxes is that in each state in which an insurance company writes premiums, the firm pays the higher of the tax rate in the state in which the company is...
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Economists have devoted much attention to understanding the effects of state-local fiscal polices, particularly taxes, on the growth of state-level employment. However, no one has investigated whether the effects differ by wage level. Using a state-level panel data set, we investigate the link...
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The authors trace the history of the Multistate Tax Commission and look at how successful it has been at meeting states' incompatible goals of uniformity and sovereignty. The authors note that the states are unwilling to give up sovereignty to achieve uniformity
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States levy insurance premium taxes, which are essentially gross receipt taxes on premiums, with insurance companies paying the higher of the tax rate in the state in which the company is domiciled and the state in which the policy is written. Using a state-level panel data set from 1992-2004...
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In this paper, we revisit the theory of property tax incidence in light of the conditions in developing and transition countries by modifying the property tax incidence model to account for at least some of the specific conditions of these countries that are thought to affect property tax...
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The National Tax Association's project on the taxation of telecommunications and electronic commerce recommended that each state employing a sales and use tax consider adopting a single statewide rate rather than continue with the number of rates currently in use. This recommendation was made in...
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We conduct a laboratory experiment to explore the willingness to pay to improve the accuracy of property assessment and three related issues regarding attitudes toward these assessments and taxes. First, we explore individual willingness to pay to improve property assessment accuracy; a more...
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