Optimization of Regional Revenues Through Tax Revenues Regulation

Time Series Modelling of Daily Tax Revenues

We provide a detailed discussion of the time series modelling of daily tax revenues. The main feature of daily tax revenue series is the pattern within calendar months. Standard seasonal time series techniques cannot be used since the number of banking days per calendar month varies and because there are two levels of seasonality: between months and within months. We start the analysis with a p...

Disparities Among Cities’ Sales Tax Revenues

Under what is known as the situs rule, a 1 percent locally levied sales tax is collected by the state but returned to the jurisdiction where the sale occurred. Thus, the situs rule gives cities an incentive to promote the location of retail businesses within their boundaries—an incentive that does not exist for residential or industrial development. Although sales taxes are a modest share of to...

The tax gap: America's underreported revenues

Pennsylvania Casinos’ Cannibalization of Regional Gambling Revenues

Gambling opportunities are expanding rapidly in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic area. Fifteen gambling venues have opened since 1996. The introduction of these venues has the potential to shift the balance of gambling activity away from New Jersey, which had enjoyed a monopoly position in the area for decades. Delaware and, more recently, Pennsylvania have entered the marketplace, raising the question of...

Optimization of State Revenues through the Introduction of Casino Gambling