Optimal Tax Research Articles

Optimal redistributive charity

AbstractThis paper analyzes optimal redistributive charitable giving in a Mirrleesian framework. The status motive behind charity, the stigma from receiving donations, and transaction costs all work to decrease the optimal marginal subsidies on redistributive charity. Because the existing empirical evidence of these effects (when available) is highly uncertain and context‐dependent, the range of possible outcomes is large, and even includes the possibility that charitable giving should be taxed rather than subsidized. In a natural benchmark case, the optimal tax treatment of charitable giving is consistent with a simple tax credit, whereas pure tax deductions are never part of the optimal policy.

Do taxspots matter?: A study of optimal tax uncertainty

Should the government run an uncertain fiscal policy to finance its liabilities? We call the resulting uncertainty taxspots, and study conditions that make taxspots optimal and recurrent in standard Ramsey problems. We show that prudence and market incompleteness play a role in sustaining taxspots, and that equal-treatment randomizations can be decentralized via taxspots even in the absence of financial markets.

A general solution to the quasi linear screening problem

We provide an algorithm for solving multidimensional screening problems which are intractable analytically. The algorithm is a primal–dual algorithm which alternates between optimizing the primal problem of the surplus extracted by the principal and the dual problem of the optimal assignment to deliver to the agents for a given surplus. We illustrate the algorithm by solving (i) the generic monopolist price discrimination problem and (ii) an optimal tax problem covering income and savings taxes when citizens differ in multiple dimensions.

Charity, Status, and Optimal Taxation: Welfarist and Non-Welfarist Approaches

Charity, Status, and Optimal Taxation: Welfarist and Non-Welfarist Approaches

Estimation of the optimal tax pressure in Nicaragua

En este trabajo se estima el nivel óptimo de presión tributaria de los impuestos IVA, IR y ISC de Nicaragua durante el Periodo 2010 – 2021. Se utilizaron modelos econométricos polinómicos con covariables para estimar el punto óptimo en cada impuesto, así también se usó fuentes secundarias de información, estimando el índice de presión tributaria y la curva de Laffer por impuesto. Se evidenció que la presión tributaria real de los impuestos indirectos IVA y ISC sobrepasan el óptimo fiscal y que la presión tributaria del IR es inferior al óptimo con un comportamiento de reducción de brecha entre el punto óptimo y real. En conclusión, se encontró que al reducir la carga impositiva de los impuestos indirectos IVA y ISC aumentaran las recaudaciones y que hay margen para el aumento del IR sin afectar a las actividades económicas.

Developing Economic and Mathematic Models of Company Tax Burden Taking into Account Specific Features of Industry

The importance and appraisal of enterprise tax burden is underlined by its serious impact on its finance and business functioning. In order to conduct a high-quality tax controlling, cut tax risks and achieve optimal tax burden the author focuses attention on studying theoretical principles and approaches to estimating the impact of tax burden on business activity of the organization. Through analyzing economic and mathematic methods of assessing company tax burden elaborated by Russian scientists, focus was made on the importance of investigating this indicator within the frames of econometric modeling with the help of language R. To estimate the impact of tax burden on results of business activity and finance and economic factor on the amount of tax burden the article proposed to build models with panel data, whose shaping can help identify steps aimed at upgrading tax control and tax burden management.

Taxes and Health Infrastructural Development in Nigeria

This study investigated the effect of taxes on health infrastructural development in Nigeria. The objectives of the study among others were to determine the effect of company income tax on health infrastructural development in Nigeria, evaluate the effect of petroleum profit tax on health infrastructural development in Nigeria. Four research questions and four hypotheses were formulated as a guide for the study. This study adopted ex post facto research design and secondary data were collected from the National Bureau of Statistics, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Federal Ministry of Finance. The study was for forty-one (41) years from 1982 to 2022. This study utilized descriptive statistics, unit root test and ordinary least square regression method of data analysis with the aid of E-View 12. The findings of the study were that company income tax is statistically positive and significant on health infrastructural development in Nigeria, customs and excises duties is statistically positive and significant on health infrastructural development in Nigeria, petroleum profit tax is statistically negative and significant on health infrastructural development on health infrastructural development in Nigeria is statistically negative and insignificant, and value added tax is statistically negative and insignificant on health infrastructural development in Nigeria. Hence, study concluded that the federally collected taxes influence health infrastructural development in Nigeria. From 1982 – 2022. Consequently, the study suggested amongst others that, government should intensify efforts at developing the level of health infrastructure in the country through optimal tax revenue mobilization because, the study affirmed that company income tax and customs and excise duties positively and significantly impact on health infrastructural development in Nigeria.

Theoretical and methodological aspects of tax analysis for the company

Tax committees routinely scrutinize the accrued tax payments, assessing their dynamics through data extracted from tax registers, financial and tax reports. This analysis unveils various reasons for non-payment of tax liabilities and pinpoints factors influencing the formation of the tax base. Adhering to the provisions of the Tax Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan is crucial for accurately determining the tax base for each type of tax. The analytical process unfolds in stages throughout the reporting year, enabling the tracking of tax liabilities’ dynamics, identification of unpaid amounts, monitoring changes in tax policy, and evaluating the impact of tax changes on the overall tax burden. In addition, it should be noted that all the work of analysts is aimed at preventing tax offences. As sources of analysis we recommend using primary accounting data, tax accounting data in the form of tax registers, financial and tax reporting. A tax analysis is necessary in order to answer the question of how much the company pays taxes to the budget. Based on the tax analysis data, each manager independently determines the optimal tax burden and, depending on this, takes measures for tax planning. Based on the results of the tax analysis, it is possible to determine which taxes are repaid on time, and, if necessary, develop specific measures to reduce the tax burden. Given the evolving landscape of the digital economy in Kazakhstan, the relevance of studying tax analysis becomes imperative. The article comprehensively explores the essence, purpose, and objectives of enterprise tax analysis, delves into the information support necessary for tax analysis, and proposes a systematic approach to indicators for effective tax analysis.

Pengaruh Tunneling Incentive Dan Mekanisme Bonus Terhadap Tax Avoidance: Systematic Literature Review

The importance of taxes in economic development for developing countries, with a focus on tax avoidance as the main obstacle in achieving optimal tax revenues. The aim of this research is to review the influence of bonus mechanisms and tunneling incentives on tax avoidance in companies. This research method uses the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method to analyze journals and articles published between 2017 and 2024, with a focus on the themes of tax, tunneling incentives, bonus mechanisms and tax avoidance. Of the 59 articles that have been selected, only 57 articles are used as research sources in this journal. The development of the number of publications related to the influence of bonus and tunneling incentive mechanisms on Tax Avoidance is still fluctuating from 2017 - 2024. It can be concluded that bonus mechanisms and tunneling incentives have different roles in influencing tax avoidance. various research sources: incentive tunneling variables can reduce tax avoidance, while bonus mechanism variables can increase tax avoidance. Tax evasion is a complex problem that requires clear consideration and law enforcement by the government and business world to ensure legal and fair tax payment practices.

The Paradox of Effective Bureaucratic Reform in Enhancing Tax Institution Performance toward Optimal Tax Ratio: A Study on the Directorate General of Taxes

The Paradox of Effective Bureaucratic Reform in Enhancing Tax Institution Performance toward Optimal Tax Ratio: A Study on the Directorate General of Taxes

An Extensive Examination of Taxation as an Accelerator for Economic Growth in Nigeria

This study looks at how taxes affect Nigeria's economic development. A time series dataset from 1996 to 2021 was estimated using a short run Autoregressive Distributed Lag [ARDL(2,1,0,0,0)]. The dataset was collected from FIRS. The impacts of Value Added Tax (VAT), Company Income Tax (CIT), Personal Income Tax (PIT), and Petroleum Profit Tax (PPT) on Nigeria's Gross Domestic Product were particularly examined in this study. The findings showed that while personal income tax and value added tax have a short-term negative impact on economic growth, corporation income had a considerable beneficial impact on Nigeria's economic expansion. In addition, petroleum profit tax has positive but insignificant effect on economic growth in the long run. Therefore, striking the right balance between tax rates, economic incentives and compliance is crucial. The Laffer curve theory provides valuable insights into finding the optimal tax rate that maximizes revenue. This can be done balancing the incentives for economic activity against the burden of taxation, finding the optimal rate varies depending on various economic factors and the taxpayer behaviour. The study suggests that offering targeted tax incentive for investments, innovation, and entrepreneurship. These incentives can include tax breaks for specific sectors, research and development activities, and job creation initiatives.

Control Of Corruption In Moderating The Effect Of Per Capita Income And Shadow Economy On Tax Revenue

The less optimal tax revenue, the low level of income, the large proportion of shadow economy in the economies and the high level of corruption are problems for development. This study tries to revisit the linkage of these four development problems, and find out how corruption control conducted by the government can strengthen or weaken the impact of per capita income and shadow economy activities on tax revenue. A dataset of eighteen countries in the South Asia and Asia-Pacific region from 2002 to 2017 is analyzed using panel data regression. It was found that per capita income and government efforts to control corruption significantly have a positive effect on tax revenue, while the shadow economy significantly has a negative effect on tax revenue. Furthermore, as a moderating variable, government efforts to control corruption can significantly reduce the negative effect of the shadow economy on tax revenue. This finding suggests the urgency of controlling corruption by the government to optimize tax revenue, thereby overcoming development problems.

Agricultural manufacturers taxation in the context of food security: environmental and economic aspects

The article examines the state, problems and prospects of taxation of agricultural producers. An analysis of the structural elements of the tax policy was carried out. The tax burden is calculated in relation to net profit, the area of agricultural land and arable land. The shortcomings of special regimes of taxation of domestic agricultural enterprises are identified. Directions for improving the mechanism of taxation of agricultural producers have been developed. The functioning of agricultural producers should provide for various state supports in the fiscal sphere, including the provision of certain tax benefits. The relationship between the taxation of agricultural enterprises and the effectiveness of their activities in the context of ensuring the food security of the State, as well as the environmental aspects of taxation, in particular the impact of taxation on the stimulation of environmentally friendly production and the use of land resources, have been studied. Recommendations have been made on improving the taxation system of agricultural commodity producers in order to increase food security and preserve ecological stability. The authors analyzed tax rates, benefits and burdens related to agricultural enterprises, which affect their financial situation and development. The article highlights the main aspects that determine the taxation of agricultural producers, and also takes into account modern trends and prospects in this area. The study helps to understand the complex aspects of taxation that affect agriculture, and also highlights possible ways to optimize the tax burden to support the sustainable development of the agricultural sector and draws attention to possible strategies for optimizing tax payments for agricultural producers aimed at increasing their competitiveness and sustainability in changing conditions market. Effective management of agribusiness is possible only under the condition of stability and predictability of tax legislation, which ensures the optimal tax burden on enterprises. The specificity of the agricultural sector requires special approaches to the taxation of business entities in this sector of the economy. Therefore, the problem of forming an effective system of taxation of the activities of entrepreneurial structures in the agrarian sector of the economy, including in order to ensure the appropriate level of food security of the state, is becoming actualized. Such measures consist in creating a favorable tax environment that promotes the development of the agricultural sector, increasing its production potential and increasing its contribution to the country’s economy.

Sustainable management of predatory fish affected by an Allee effect through marine protected areas and taxation

Ecological balance and stable economic development are crucial for the fishery. This study proposes a predator–prey system for marine communities, where the growth of predators follows the Allee effect and takes into account the rapid fluctuations in resource prices caused by supply and demand. The system predicts the existence of catastrophic equilibrium, which may lead to the extinction of prey, consequently leading to the extinction of predators, but fishing efforts remain high. Marine protected areas are established near fishing areas to avoid such situations. Fish migrate rapidly between these two areas and are only harvested in the nonprotected areas. A three-dimensional simplified model is derived by applying variable aggregation to describe the variation of global variables on a slow time scale. To seek conditions to avoid species extinction and maintain sustainable fishing activities, the existence of positive equilibrium points and their local stability are explored based on the simplified model. Moreover, the long-term impact of establishing marine protected areas and levying taxes based on unit catch on fishery dynamics is studied, and the optimal tax policy is obtained by applying Pontryagin’s maximum principle. The theoretical analysis and numerical examples of this study demonstrate the comprehensive effectiveness of increasing the proportion of marine protected areas and controlling taxes on the sustainable development of fishery.

The Skewed Playing Field between Private Equity and Family Ownership Hemmed in by Intra- and Inter-Country Tax Non-Neutralities

This article investigates the ownership and management dynamics of private equity investments and family-controlled holdings in the United Kingdom and Italy, and reveals a tax imbalance in their pursuit of corporate control over publicly listed firms. By employing an interdisciplinary approach and a quantitative case study analysis applied to corporate and tax planning, this article illustrates that whereas UK taxation favours private equity, Italy leans towards controlling families, highlighting its implications for the private equity industry’s competitiveness and family inter generational succession, both domestically and across borders. Hence, with no ex ante preference for a specific form of ownership model (family or private equity), the article sheds light on the impact of tax considerations on corporate control decisions, and therefore advocates for tax neutrality to level the playing field between family and private equity control. Last, the article observes a greater reliance on leverage in private equity corporate governance models compared to controlling families, suggesting that it is not the legal availability of a tax shelter (interest deductions) per se that prompts its use, but rather the controlling investor's profile that weighs on borrowing preferences.

Optimal taxation of nonrenewable resources during clean energy transition: A general equilibrium approach

In this paper we study clean energy transition in a modified version of the Ramsey growth model by including nonrenewable and renewable resources as well as pollution externalities. The main difference from previous works is that we consider imperfect substitution between nonrenewable and renewable resources. We characterize the social optimum and show that the economy converges to a clean state in the long run. We then study the decentralized equilibrium and show that the economy converges to the same state even without regulation, but with higher environmental damage. Further, we investigate the properties of the taxation trajectory that drives the laissez-faire economy to follow the optimal path and show that it can be either increasing or decreasing over time. We identify different channels that influence the path of optimal taxation and show that it depends, among other things, on the level of capital, the cost of renewable energy and the degree of substitution between renewable and nonrenewable resources.

Investigating heterogeneity in the price elasticity of traffic flow in Melbourne: Evidence from traffic volume data

AbstractThis paper leverages a rich dataset of 1.24 billion traffic flow observations across 36,666 vehicle detectors to estimate the price elasticity of traffic flow with respect to fuel prices in Melbourne, Australia. I find that a 1% increase in fuel prices leads to a 0.0556% decrease in traffic flow across Melbourne, where traffic flow is defined as the number of vehicles passing a vehicle counter per hour. I find significant regional heterogeneity across Melbourne, with evidence of positive own‐price elasticities in regions in the centre of the city, and in peak commute times on both weekdays and weekends, which I argue is evidence of a congestion‐speed effect. Moreover, regions near the CBD with high incomes tend to be less elastic than regions further away with reduced access to public transport. These findings can be used to determine the optimal tax or charge to internalise the externalities produced by motor vehicles.

Fair inheritance taxation

AbstractWe study the optimal taxation of bequests in a successive‐generation model in which individuals have heterogeneous preferences over their consumption and the net‐of‐tax bequest received by their heir. We show that it is possible to reconcile the views that children should not be penalized by the lack of altruism of their parents, and parents should be free to choose their bequests. The resulting optimal non‐linear inheritance tax scheme collects money and redistributes it through a non‐negative demogrant, and does not tax, and, in some cases, subsidizes bequests lower than that of the poorest altruistic individual.

Political Language in Economics

Abstract Does academic writing in economics reflect the political orientation of economists? We use machine learning to measure partisanship in academic economics articles. We predict the observed political behaviour of a subset of economists using phrases from their academic articles, show good out-of-sample predictive accuracy and then predict partisanship for all economists. We then use these predictions to examine patterns of political language in economics. We estimate journal-specific effects on predicted ideology, controlling for author and year fixed effects, that accord with existing survey-based measures. We show considerable sorting of economists into fields of research by predicted partisanship. We also show that partisanship is detectable even within fields, even across those estimating the same theoretical parameter. Using policy-relevant parameters collected from previous meta-analyses, we then show that imputed partisanship is correlated with estimated parameters, such that the implied policy prescription is consistent with partisan leaning. For example, we find that going from the most left-wing authored estimate of the taxable top income elasticity to the most right-wing authored estimate decreases the optimal tax rate from 77% to 60%.

Assessment of Factors Affecting Optimal Tax Burden and Tax Revenues in RA

The purpose of the article is to identify the factors affecting the optimal tax burden and tax revenues of RA and evaluate their impact. The tasks of the work are to identify the range of factors affecting the optimal tax burden and tax revenues, to evaluate their impact and transmission mechanisms using econometric models. The analyzes in the work were carried out using statistical and econometric methods, the version of the Laffer curve, modified by Balatsky. As a result of the study, it was revealed that the evaluation results show that RA economic growth, other things being equal, will reach its maximum value when the tax burden is 20.9-21.9 %, which we considered as the optimal tax burden range. The government's final consumption expenditure does not ensure a sufficient level of economic growth or a continuation of high growth. The assessment of the impact of indicators determining GDP growth on tax revenues shows that the indicators determining GDP growth, in general, also have a significant impact on tax revenues.