Tax-exempt status has long been perceived as appropriate for the traditional retirement home (i.e., congregate housing and life-care facility), which serves the elderly and typically experiences low profit margins. An organization that is both organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes or for testing for public safety may qualify ...

the corporate income tax rate plays a worthwhile role in developing fiscal and tax policies for companies, lawmakers and analysts. so, one of the most important issues in tax field, is to determine effective tax rates. the study and scientific calculations of the effective tax rates provide an enhanced tax justice and a careful study of tax pressure on taxpayers would be possible. the objective...

There are independent literatures in economics considering tax-price and match-price incentives for giving. The match-price literature has produced well-identified small price elasticities, but scholars have widely questioned whether these estimates can inform tax policy. The tax-price literature in contrast has produced a large range of estimates. Here, we explore and compare these different i...

this study attempts to come up with a practical framework for evaluating the taxpayer satisfaction for taxation organization. in so doing, first, 22 essential factors in taxpayer satisfaction process; were found in the literature related to the customer satisfaction indices, and then a questionnaire was constructed based on these factors. 140 experts in this field participated in the study and ...

One of the most basic distortions created by the double taxation of corporate income is the disincentive to incorporate. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which the aggregate allocation of assets and taxable income in the U.S. between corporate vs. non-corporate forms of organization during the period 1959--86 has responded to the size of the tax distortion discouraging firms from inc...

Using econometric models of endogenous sample selection, we examine possible payment bias to Medicare Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) risk health maintenance organizations (HMOs) in the Twin Cities in 1988. We do not find statistically significant evidence of favorable HMO selection. In fact, the sign of the selection term indicates adverse selection into HMOs. This fin...

phase-in of federal income taxes, Congress allowed oil and gas companies to deduct 27.5 percent of gross revenues (up to half of net income) for corporate income tax purposes. Characteristically, a tax policy that began as a technical adjustment of the tax code turned into a deliberate measure to stimulate oil and gas production. The deduction was a big hit with the industry because it far exce...

laffer curve indicates relationship between tax rate and tax income. the aim of this paper is estimating of laffer curve in iranian economy. to do so, we have used threshold regression method. empirical results indicate that since the tax rate is low (the threshold value is less than 0.0848) in two-regime model, tax rate and tax income have a significant positive relationship, but when the tax ...