Selaus asiasanan mukaan kokoelmassa VATT Working Papers

    • Discrete Labor Supply: Empirical Evidence and Implications 

      Kosonen, Tuomas; Matikka, Tuomas
      VATT Working Papers : 132 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 25.05.2020)
      We provide novel evidence of discrete labor supply responses to tax incentives and study the broader implications of discrete rather than continuous labor supply. We utilize an income notch and a reform that shifted the ...
    • How do small firms respond to tax schedule discontinuities? Evidence from South African tax registers 

      Boonzaaier, Wian; Harju, Jarkko; Matikka, Tuomas; Pirttilä, Jukka
      VATT Working Papers : 85 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 28.04.2017)
      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 ...
    • Missing Miles: Evasion Responses to Car Taxes 

      Harju, Jarkko; Kosonen, Tuomas; Slemrod, Joel
      VATT Working Papers : 123 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 03.10.2019)
      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 ...
    • Tax planning and investment responses to dividend taxation 

      Koivisto, Aliisa
      VATT Working Papers : 154 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 20.03.2023)
      This study explores how business owners respond to dividend taxes in different margins including tax planning and investment. I use administrative tax data on all privately held Finnish corporations and their main owners ...
    • The Effects of Corporate Taxes on Small Firms 

      Harju, Jarkko; Koivisto, Aliisa; Matikka, Tuomas
      VATT Working Papers : 129 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 06.03.2020)
      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 ...