Tax revenue and private domestic investment

Attracting private investment: Tax reduction, investment subsidy, or both?

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper uses a real-option model to examine the net benefit to a government from using tax cut and/or investment subsidy as incentives to induce immediate investment. Although earlier papers generally concluded that investment subsidy dominates tax cut, it is observed that many governments use a combination of subsidy and tax cut. We show that, when the government uses ...

Economic Freedom, Economic Growth And Governments Tax Revenue In (MENA)

Tax revenue mobilisation in Ethiopia

State Government Tax Revenue , Tax Revenue Composition and Tax Effort Index : An Assessment of the 1978 - 97 period

Fiscal deficit concerns, especially during sever downturns, and uncertainties regarding future federal grants have underscored the importance of relying on state own-revenues including taxes. In this paper, we derive an equation for state total tax revenue-output ratio and estimate it using a panel of forty-nine states over the period 1978-97 (the sample period reflects a break in some key seri...

Regional Tax Coordination and Foreign Direct Investment Regional Tax Coordination and Foreign Direct Investment *

The paper analyzes the effects of a regionally coordinated profit tax in a model with three active countries, one of which is not part of the union, and a globally mobile firm. We show that regional tax coordination can lead to two types of welfare gains. First, for investments that would take place in the region in the absence of coordination, this measure can transfer location rents from the ...