a r t i c l e i n f o We present a model of tax competition for real investment and profits and show that the presence of tax havens in some cases increases the tax revenue of countries. In the first part of the paper, we argue that tax competition for profits is likely to be imperfect in the sense that the jurisdiction with the lowest tax rate does not necessarily attract all shifted profits. ...

Managing urban growth in small to moderate size communities is often particularly challenging. Development pressures and desire for greater tax bases are often high, while resources and technologies to project the outcomes of planning decisions are often limited. Over the 1990s, the township of Williston, Vermont approved the development of as many as 300 residential units per year. During this...

f or several decades, the selection of a proper tax base has been among the most serious concerns for the economic policy makers. the computable general equilibrium models analysis provides a comprehensive framework for the investigation of the effects of the adopted policies on the economy of a country. in the present study, using a static computable general equilibrium, the effects of tax re...

this paper, i have focused on the tax side of the fiscal policy to  investigate the past and future behavior of fiscal sustainability in iran. to do so, i have employed two different forward-looking and backward-looking approaches. first, the backward-looking approach is the fiscal policy rule proposed by daving & leeper (2011). precisely, this rule determines that whether the fiscal policy is ...

one of the reasons that companies avoid paying their taxes is that they choose to use debts for their funding. in other words, tax saving, an activity of companies to avoid taxpaying, can be used to finance corporate projects. furthermore, since institutional owners are more inclined to supervise, they may shrink managerial behaviors to avoid taxpaying. in this study, institutional owners’ supe...

2 Relatively consistently across taxpaying jurisdictions, younger people are found to be less compliant than middle-aged and older people Australian Taxation Office, to tailor their advisory services to young taxpayers through a special purpose online site (Commissioner of Taxation, 2004), while others, like the Swedish Tax Agency, have launched extensive advertising campaigns to educate younge...

This paper studies how the transition from self-employment to employee-jobs over the long run of development can explain growth in income tax capacity. I construct a new database which covers 90 household surveys across countries at different income levels and 140 years of historical data within the US (1870-2010). Using these data, I first establish three new stylized facts: 1) within country,...