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Using data from the California primary market, we find that on average Build America Bonds (BABs) have after-subsidy … implied tax rate for the marginal municipal bond investor is 25%, which is also the neutral subsidy rate at which municipal … by the same issuers on the same dates suggests a comparable implied tax rate and net after-subsidy savings of about 65 …
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prevailing view is that such deductibility is a subsidy causing substantial distortions and should be phased out. Perhaps because … results of my inquiry suggest that such tax deductibility is not a subsidy either in the case of corporate debt interest or …
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intended to lower the price of monetary donation. Standard economic theory predicts that the two schemes will have the same …
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participant of this market gets a tax subsidy since premiums are excluded from taxable income. However, people have different … receive implicit cross-subsidies from low-risk individuals. In this paper we explore several ways to reform the tax subsidy by … subsidy leads to the unraveling of the employer-based pool, there is still room for substantial savings by targeting the tax …
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effects of R&D intensity, R&D investment and tax incentives on firms' growth in Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain from 2002 to 2014. Another ambition of this paper is to identify which selected factors affected firms' growth. The effect of variables such...
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The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the single most important transfer program in place in the United States. An aspect of the EITC that has received little attention thus far is its role as a public insurance program. Yet, the structure of the EITC necessarily protects its primary class of...
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In many developed countries, the most significant housing subsidy programs are funded by tax expenditures rather than … direct appropriations. Beyond the subsidy to homeownership under the personal income tax, the U.S. tax code provides …
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Reform of support for fossil fuels is often identified as a priority for a country’s fiscal consolidation efforts and for climate action to align financial flows with low-carbon pathways. Its implementation, however, remains elusive for many countries as they face seemingly irreconcilable...
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understanding to define, measure and evaluate fossil-fuel energy subsidies for the success of the subsidy reform. Otherwise, this … identifying and evaluating individual countries’ fossil-fuel subsidy policies. The OECD collects and assembles the information …
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merger with or acquisition of an entity active in the EU will be hardly doable. Unlike EU state aid rules (and WTO subsidy …
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