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Voluntary pension savings and tax incentives: Evidence from Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2012-06-25)
This paper studies empirically savers' behavioral responses to the Finnish tax reform of 2005 by using comprehensive panel data. The tax schedule of voluntary pension savings changed from progressive to proportional, ...
Entrepreneurs and income-shifting: Empirical evidence from a Finnish tax reform
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-01-14)
This study examines the extent of direct tax avoidance through income-shifting between wages and dividends, and approximates the deadweight loss due to this behavior for the owners of privately held corporations. The dual ...
The impact of tax incentives on the economic activity of entrepreneurs
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-01-10)
Based on existing evidence, we know little about how the taxation of small business owners affects their economic activity. This paper studies the effect of two Finnish tax reforms, in 1997 and 1998, on the effort decisions ...
The effects of size-based regulation on small firms: evidence from VAT threshold
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-06-14)
Various types of size-based regulations for firms are typical in most countries (tax schedules, accounting rules, health and safety standards etc.). However, there is only limited evidence of how owners of small firms ...
The Elasticity of Taxable Income and Income-shifting: What is "Real" and What is Not?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2014-09-11)
Previous literature shows that income taxation significantly affects the behavior of high-income earners and business owners. However, it is still unclear how much of the response is due to changes in effort and other real ...
How do small firms respond to tax schedule discontinuities? Evidence from South African tax registers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-04-28)
We study the responsiveness of small and medium-sized firms to corporate income taxes using population-wide administrative data from South Africa. We find sizable bunching of firms at the corporate income thresholds where ...
Firm Responses to an Interest Barrier: Empirical Evidence
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-06-27)
This paper studies the effects of an interest barrier that was introduced in Finland to restrict the profit-shifting opportunities of multinational enterprises (MNEs). We employ full population data of Finnish, Swedish and ...
Restaurant VAT cut: Cheaper meal and more service?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-10-09)
This paper provides causally plausible estimates of the effects of consumption taxes in a service sector on prices and demand for restaurant services. We utilize a large VAT reform affecting restaurant meals, where the VAT ...
Dividend taxes and decisions of MNEs: Evidence from a Finnish tax reform
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2011-10-12)
We explore how a firm-level tax on redistributed foreign profits affects the choices of a multinational enterprise (MNE) using evidence from a recent tax reform in Finland. The so-called equalization tax (EQT) used to be ...
Firm types, price-setting strategies, and consumption-tax incidence
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-12-29)
Studying very detailed micro data collected around two different VAT reforms in Europe, we show that tax incidence is heavily dependent on the characteristics of the price-setting firms. The reforms generated bimodal ...