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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 ...
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 ...
More haircut after VAT cut? On the efficiency of service sector consumption taxes
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-09-26)
Consumption tax rates targeted at specific sectors are often reformed without empirical knowledge about the efficiency of these policies. This paper sheds light on the efficiency issue, the potential for welfare improving ...
Housing transfer taxes and household mobility: Distortion on the housing or labour market?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-08-09)
We estimate the effect of the UK Stamp Duty Land Tax on household mobility using micro data. Exploiting a discontinuity in the tax schedule as a quasiexperimental setting, we isolate the impact of the stamp duty from other ...
The role of information in tax compliance: Evidence from a natural field experiment
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-09-16)
It is challenging to distinguish the role of information in tax compliance from
other factors affecting it. This paper utilizes a novel natural field experiment
design to study the issue. In the experiment firms reporting ...