| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23675 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23675 |
| Simulating Business Cash Flow Taxation: An Illustration Based on the \u201cBetter Way\u201d Corporate Tax Reform | |
| Seth G. Benzell; Laurence J. Kotlikoff; Guillermo LaGarda | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-08-14 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The U.S., according to some measures, has one of the highest marginal effective corporate tax rates (METRs) of any developed country. Yet the tax collects less than 2 percent of GDP. This paper studies the impact of replacing the U.S. corporate tax with a Business Cash Flow Tax (BCFT). Our paper studies BCFT reform with reference to a particular, but reasonably generic, proposal, namely the House Republican “Better Way” tax plan. We use the Global Gaidar Model – a 17-region, global, overlapping-generations model, calibrated to U.N. demographic and IMF fiscal data – to simulate the dynamic, general equilibrium impact of this reform. In the short run, the U.S. capital stock, pre-tax wage rates, and GDP rise by roughly 25 percent, 8 percent, and 9 percent, respectively. Over time, the capital stock and wage rates remain significantly above their baseline values. There is a smaller long-run increase in GDP as workers spend some of their higher wages on additional leisure. The tax reform produces enough additional revenues to permit a reduction in personal income tax rates while maintaining the economy's initial debt-to-GDP ratio. The beneficiaries of the House plan are today's and tomorrow's workers. We also simulate a matching METR cut by the rest of the world, which raises the world interest rate. The short-run increases in the capital stock, pre-tax wage rates, and GDP are smaller. However, along the transition path, all U.S. agents experience slightly higher welfare than under the House plan. This reflects the combination of a higher post-corporate tax world interest rate and Americans' disproportionately large holdings of global assets |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics ; International Economics ; International Macroeconomics ; Public Economics ; Taxation ; National Fiscal Issues |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23675 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581349 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Seth G. Benzell,Laurence J. Kotlikoff,Guillermo LaGarda. Simulating Business Cash Flow Taxation: An Illustration Based on the \u201cBetter Way\u201d Corporate Tax Reform. 2017. |
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| w23675.pdf（665KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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