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Estimating VAT pass through
Benedek, Dora; Mooij, Ruud A. de; Keen, Michael; … - 2015
This paper estimates the pass through of VAT changes to consumer prices, using a unique dataset providing disaggregated, monthly data on prices and VAT rates for 17 Eurozone countries over 1999-2013. Pass through is much less than full on average, and differs markedly across types of VAT change....
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The pass-through of temporary VAT rate cuts : evidence from German supermarket retail
Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2021 - First draft: November 2020, this version: June 2021
On 3 June 2020, the German government announced a temporary value added tax (VAT) rate reduction. VAT rates were reduced on 1 July 2020 and went back to their previous level on 1 January 2021. We study the price effects of the temporary VAT rate reduction using a web-scraped data set covering...
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Who carries the burden of the value-added tax? : evidence from Germany
Sultan, Samina - 2020
The value-added tax is one of the most important tax revenue sources in many countries. However, it is sometimes considered unfair as it ultimately hits consumption, and poorer households spend a greater share of their income on consumption. But this depends on whether, and to what degree, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404571
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The pass-through of temporary VAT rate cuts : evidence from German retail prices
Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2020
On 1 July 2020, value added tax (VAT) rates were reduced in Germany to fight the economic consequences of the Corona pandemic. The VAT rate reduction is temporary as rates will return to their previous level on 1 January 2021. We study the effects of the temporary VAT rate cut on German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012308569
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Estimating VAT Pass Through
Benedek, Dora - 2015
This paper estimates the pass through of VAT changes to consumer prices, using a uniquedataset providing disaggregated, monthly data on prices and VAT rates for 17 Eurozonecountries over 1999-2013. Pass through is much less than full on average, and differsmarkedly across types of VAT change....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011191
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Estimating VAT Pass Through
Benedek, Dora - 2015
This paper estimates the pass through of VAT changes to consumer prices, using a unique dataset providing disaggregated, monthly data on prices and VAT rates for 17 Eurozone countries over 1999-2013. Pass through is much less than full on average, and differs markedly across types of VAT change....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013095
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The impact of sales taxation on internet commerce - an empirical analysis
Ahmed, Shamim; Wirjanto, Tony S. - In: Economics letters 99 (2008) 3, pp. 557-560
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The Economic Incidence of Replacing a Retail Sales Tax by a Value-Added Tax : Evidence from Canadian Experience
Smart, Michael - 2008
A decade ago, several Canadian provinces replaced retail sales taxes by value-added taxes. This paper estimates the effects of this tax substitution on consumer prices in the reforming provinces. Consistent with theory, we find that the resulting effective tax rate changes were shifted forward...
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Taxing Consumption in Canada : Rates, Revenues, and Redistribution
Bird, Richard M. - 2016
The introduction of the VAT in Canada, initially in the form of the federal GST in 1991, did not signify a major change … in Canada unlike in other countries is generally quoted separately (like retail sales taxes in the US) and hence highly … is to examine in some detail and with some new evidence the incidence of Canada's sales and excise taxes, a question that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996831
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Efficiency and incidence of taxation with free entry and love-of-variety
Kroft, Kory; Laliberté, Jean-William; Leal Vizcaíno, René - 2023
We develop a theory of commodity taxation featuring imperfect competition along with love-of-variety preferences and endogenous firm entry and exit, and we derive new formulas for the efficiency and pass-through of specific and ad valorem taxes. These formulas unify existing canonical ones and...
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