This paper analyses firm-specific and country-specific factors that have an impact on the effective corporate income tax rates (ETR) for CEE listed companies based data obtained from BvD Amadeus database. Business analysed in this research are company size, leverage, capital inventory intensity, return assets. Concerning factors, chosen were statutory rate cultural represented by personal econo...

This paper tests the hypothesis that the salience of a tax system affects equilibrium tax rates. I analyze how toll rates change after toll facilities adopt electronic toll collection, under which tolls are automatically deducted as the car drives through the toll plaza, eliminating the need to hand over cash. A survey I conducted indicates that drivers are much less aware of toll rates when th...

To understand the role of evidence in tax policy design, this paper organizes the empirical analysis of reform under five loosely related headings: (i) key margins of adjustment, (ii) measurement of effective tax rates, (iii) the importance of information and complexity, (iv) evidence on the size of responses, and (v) implications from theory for tax design. The context for the discussion is th...

Few macroeconomic studies exist on the effects of taxes on international trade. Our hypothesis is that higher tax rates raise a country’s production costs, leading to a decrease in exports in the long run. With panel data for 25 OECD countries, we use average effective tax rates on consumption, labor income and capital income to examine their impact on bilateral trade. We find that that all thr...

We estimate how capital gains realizations respond to marginal tax rates on capital gains using a panel of aggregate data for U.S. states for the years 1957 through 2007. In specifications controlling for state fixed effects and year fixed effects, where identification comes from difference-in-differences variation in effective state marginal tax rates, our point estimate of the elasticity of c...

This paper uses a dynamic general equilibrium model to analyze and quantify the aggregate effects of the timing of the tax rate changes enacted in 2001 and 2003. The 2001 law called for a sequence of successive rate reductions from 2001 until 2006. The 2003 law made immediate the tax rate cuts scheduled for 2004 and 2006 under the earlier law. The phased-in nature of the tax cuts under the 2001...

Financial repression entails an implicit taxation on savings. When effective income-tax rates are very uneven, as common in developing countries, raising some government revenue through mild financial repression can be more efficient than collecting income tax only.  2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

This study tests the relation between corporate tax avoidance and disclosure of geographic earnings. After the adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 131 in 1998, firms opting to no longer disclose geographic segment earnings in their financial reports experience a decrease in their worldwide effective tax rates through reduced foreign tax rates. These results are consisten...