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Ravintoloiden arvonlisäveroalennuksen hintavaikutukset
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2010-11-24)
Tässä tutkimuksessa arvioidaan ravintoloiden arvonlisäverokannan alentamisen vaikutuksia ravintolapalveluiden hintoihin. Arvonlisäveroa alennettiin heinäkuun 2010 alusta lähtien 22 prosentista 13 prosenttiin. Tutkimuksessa ...
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, ...
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 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 ...
Essays on taxation – Evidence from tax reforms
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-11-27)
This dissertation consists an introductory chapter and four empirical essays on the taxation of firms and individuals. The first essay concentrates on how the Finnish tax reform of 2005 affected voluntary pension plan ...
Using Payroll Tax Variation to Unpack the Black Box of Firm-Level Production
(Oxford University Press, 2021)
This paper uses quasi-experimental variation in payroll tax rates in Finland to investigate how firms use their input factors. We find that higher payroll tax rates lead to large employment responses and have no effects ...
Firm types, price-setting strategies, and consumption-tax incidence
(Elsevier, 2018)
We analyze price responses to large restaurant VAT rate reductions in two different European countries. Our results show that responses in the short and medium run were clustered around two focal points of zero pass-through ...
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 ...