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The effects of corporate taxes on small firms
(Elsevier, 2022)
We study the impact of corporate taxes on firm-level investments and business activity by exploiting a 6 percentage-point reduction in the corporate tax rate in 2012–2014 in Finland. We use detailed administrative data and ...
Transfer taxes and household mobility: Distortion on the housing or labor market?
(Elsevier, 2017)
We estimate the effect of the UK Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) – a transfer tax on the purchase price of property or land – on different types of household mobility using micro data. Exploiting a discontinuity in the tax ...
Optimal taxation and public provision for poverty reduction
(Springer Verlag, 2018)
The existing literature on optimal taxation typically assumes there exists a capacity to implement complex tax schemes, which is not necessarily the case for many developing countries. We examine the determinants of optimal ...
Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence from Changes in Municipal Income Tax Rates in Finland
(Wiley, 2018)
The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is a key parameter in income tax analysis both in terms of efficiency and tax revenue. This paper uses Finnish data to analyze the ETI. I use changes in flat municipal income tax rates ...
Missing miles: Evasion responses to car taxes
(Elsevier, 2020)
We study a tax evasion response to car taxes in Finland, where used car importers overstate the mileage to reduce tax liability. First, we develop a tax evasion measure by comparing reported mileage upon import with ...
Promoting education under distortionary taxation
(UNU-WIDER, 2019-03)
How does the public provision of education and the deployment of distortionary tax and subsidy instruments differ when the government’s objective is conventional welfarist compared to when the objective is the non-welfarist ...
Revisiting the effects of housing transfer taxes
(Elsevier, 2021)
Housing transfer taxes are fiscally important in many countries despite evidence of substantial welfare costs. We argue that the welfare costs are larger than previously thought because previous studies ignore spillovers ...
Missing Miles: Evasion Responses to Car Taxes
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2019-10-03)
We study a tax evasion response to car taxes in Finland, where used car importers overstate the mileage to reduce tax liability. First, we develop a tax evasion measure by comparing reported mileage upon import with ...
The Effects of Corporate Taxes on Small Firms
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2020-03-06)
We study the impact of corporate taxes on firm-level investments, total output and input usage by exploiting a 4.5 percentage-point corporate tax rate cut in Finland in 2014. We use detailed administrative data and a ...
How do small firms respond to tax schedule discontinuities? Evidence from South African tax registers
(Springer US, 2019)
We study the responsiveness of small- and medium-sized firms to a small-business corporate income tax schedule using population-wide administrative data from South Africa. We find sizeable bunching of firms at the corporate ...