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1 online resource (37 pages) |
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IMF Working Papers |
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IMF Working Papers
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| Contents |
Cover; Content; I. Introduction; II. The Dataset; III. Tax Structure and Development; Figures; 1. Tax Revenue and Income Levels; 2. Tax Revenue and Income Levels: Disaggregated Analysis; 3. Long-Run Trends in Total Tax Revenue; 4. Trends in Tax Revenue: Disaggregated Analysis; 5. Trends in Tax Composition; IV. Empirical Strategy; V. Tax Composition and Growth I: Full Sample; VI. Tax Composition and Growth II: High, Middle and Low-Income Countries; VII. Endogeneity Checks; VIII. Concluding Remarks; References; Tables; 1. Estimation Results, Full Sample |
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2. Comparing Estimation Methods: PMG, MG, and DFE Estimates3. Estimation Results, The Income-Tax Share and Growth, HICs, MICs, and LICs; 4. Estimation Results, The Consumption-and-Property-Tax Share and Growth, HICs, MICs, and LICs; 5. Test of Weak Exogeneity, The Number of Countries with Potential Endogeneity Problem; 6. Estimation Results, Full Sample, After Excluding Countries with; 7. Estimation Results, The Income-Tax Share, HICs, MICs, and LICs, After Excluding Countries with Potential Endogeneity Problem |
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8. Estimation Results, The Consumption-and-Property-Tax Share, HICs, MICs, LICs, After Excluding Countries with Potential Endogeneity ProblemAnnexes; I. Construction of the GFS Dataset; II. Definition of Tax Variables; III. The Underlying Error Correction Model; IV. Regression Analysis Considering the Output Level; Annex Tables; Annex Table 1. Tax Composition and Income Level, in Comparison with Arnold et al (2011); V. Summary Statistics; Annex Table 2. Summary Statistics of Tax Variables; Annex Table 3. Summary Statistics of Other Variables |
| Summary |
We investigate the relation between changes in tax composition and long-run economic growth using a new dataset covering a broad cross-section of countries with different income levels. We specifically consider 69 countries with at least 20 years of observations on total tax revenue during the period 1970-2009?21 high-income, 23 middle-income and 25 low-income countries. To our knowledge this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date dataset on tax composition and growth. We find that increasing income taxes while reducing consumption and property taxes is associated with slower growth over the |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Taxation.
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Finance, Public.
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Taxes
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Finance, Public
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Taxation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Yoo, Jiae
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| ISBN |
9781616359171 |
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161635917X |
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