Tax incentives and foreign direct investment in China

The preferential tax policies for foreign direct investment (FDI) in China were terminated by a tax reform in 2008. This article uses the provincial-level panel data for 1998?2008 before the reform in order to study whether the tax incentive had been a significant determinant of foreign investment decisions. We find that market size and geographic location had significant impacts on the FDI inflow into China but the tax incentive policies were not a sufficient determinant of FDI inflow into China over the periods studied, which provides a rationale for the termination of the tax incentives in FDI at 2008 reform in China.     

我国矿产资源价格重构中的税收效应分析

现阶段我国矿产资源价格扭曲是导致资源配置效率低下和环境污染的重要诱因。本文在标准的动态霍特林模型分析框架下,对税收与资源价格之间的关系进行理论分析,重点对矿产资源征税应采取从量税还是从价税作出解释。最后针对我国矿产资源价格改革中存在的诸多税收问题,提出资源税收进一步深化改革的政策建议。     

促进信息技术产业发展的税收思考

IT产业是一个比较幼稚的产业,但它对于国民经济而言又具有非常重大的现实意义。从某个角度上说,它在竞争中处于不利的地位,因而有必要对其在税收政策方面给予一定的扶持。扶持的措施是完善税收政策,改革现行的企业所得税,增值税和个人所得税,使我国的税收制度更加有利于IT产业的发展。     

日本研发税制改革及其对我国的启示

实践证明,税收激励政策是政府支持技术研发的重要手段,对研发活动具有重大影响。在当前全球金融危机形势下,如何运用好税收激励政策,是政府支持企业进行积极的产业结构调整,使经济尽快走出“低谷”的一个重要方面,也是在促进经济平稳较快发展中发挥科技支撑作用的一个重要环节。本文将通过分析和总结日本研发税制改革过程,提出进一步改进和完善我国现行研发税收政策的思路。     

论税务稽查质量考核指标体系的建立

税务稽查是税收征管的重要环节，搞好税务稽查是保证税收收入、堵塞税收漏洞的基础，为了保证税务稽查的质量，监督相关机构和人员的工作，提出了建立税务稽查质量考核指标体系的基本设想，并在此基础上进一步提出了实施税务稽查质量考核的基本措施。     

Tax Amnesties In A Dynamic Model of Tax Evasion

We present a dynamic model of tax evasion, where tax liabilities last for two periods and the probability of an inspection decreases with the sum of taxes evaded this period plus taxes evaded last period. We show that a tax amnesty that pardons more than the evasion penalties (an extensive amnesty) can temporarily improve compliance. Whenever the inspection technology improves, steady state compliance also improves, but the economy takes time to transit from one steady state to the other. We show that an amnesty may accelerate this transit, or even make it instantaneous if the amnesty is extensive enough.     

论税务管理能力与有效税制改革

衡量一项税制或税制改革是否有效,其最综合性的标志是:税制执行后,其理论税负与实际税负是否一致。而这一状况的实现,与一国税制的设计是否与其税务管理能力相匹配是密切相关的。各国税制改革的实践表明,税务管理能力本身就应成为一国有效税制改革的中心。我国当前不尽如人意的税制执行结果,以及税制与税务管理确立背景的诸多变化,都迫切要求我们进一步提高税务管理能力,以增强税制及税制改革的有效性。     

产业异质性、税收激励与自主创新

以2007-2016年中国战略性新兴产业A股上市公司数据为研究样本,从企业研发投入和专利产出两个维度,考察税收优惠政策与企业技术创新之间的关系。结果发现：①税收优惠政策对于企业自主创新具有激励作用,有效促进了企业研发投入和专利产出;②基于企业所属产业异质性视角发现,税收优惠政策对于八大战略性新兴产业企业的创新作用存在显著差异：对于新一代信息技术、高端装备制造业、节能环保等产业研发投入和专利产出具有激励作用,但对新能源产业的创新投入、生物产业和新能源汽车产业的专利产出具有抑制作用。研究结论在一定程度上解释了现有研究关于税收优惠政策“激励效应”和“抑制效应”的争议,也对完善中国创新税收激励制度具有借鉴意义。     

企业行为约束下技术创新所得税激励政策效应研究

技术创新所得税激励政策效应的发挥不但取决于政策本身的制度设计,还取决于企业投资行为对税收政策的敏感性。技术创新所得税激励政策作为制度驱动,既受到企业自身行为的约束,又与企业内部研发驱动机制相互作用。在企业行为理论框架下,运用随机效应模型,以2009—2013年中国Ａ股上市公司数据为样本,对企业行为约束下中国技术创新所得税激励政策效应进行了理论分析和实证检验。结果发现,税收优惠政策形成的税收补贴通过转化为企业内部资源、降低研发投资风险,使得企业内部驱动机制对研发支出的积极作用增强;所得税激励政策本身并未对企业技术创新活动产生显著的激励作用。     

增值税转型及相关行业税负分析

增值税转型是一项普惠型的改革,但是经历了漫长的分批试点过程.政府的谨慎与社会的广泛关注,使得此次税改推行耐人寻味.按国务院税改会议披露的实施细则,此次税改后实际税率降中有升.并非各界所期待的那样普遍受益,这意味着国务院借扩大内需之机对国内产业的新一轮调整.而无论企业受益或受损,在各自面对国际市场环境低迷、国内政策方向不明朗的情况下都应作长短期两手准备.     

R & D税收激励有效性与影响因素

基于生产函数理论抽象出盈利能力和研发程度是R&D税收激励效应的两个关键因素,进而采用2012-2015年全国高新技术企业调查数据,分别检验了15%税率式优惠与研发加计扣除政策的有效性及其影响因素。实证结果表明：15%税率式优惠与加计扣除政策均能激励企业创新,而加计扣除激励效果显著优于15%税率式优惠;15%税率式优惠政策效应受企业盈利能力影响较大,而加计扣除政策受企业研发投入的作用较大;15%税率式优惠政策对高新制造业、服务业和文化产业创新激励效果不显著,而加计扣除对高新制造业和文化产业研发密集型行业创新具有显著的激励作用;15%税率式激励对成熟度较高企业创新具有较好的激励效应,而研发费用加计扣除政策对成熟度较低企业创新具有较强的促进作用。     

中外R&D所得税税收激励政策比较与思考

我国现行R&D税收优惠采用以直接优惠为主的政策,这种政策已不能满足我国2020年进入创新型国家行列这一发展目标的需要。本文通过借鉴发达国家加大R&D投入税收激励政策的经验,分析了我国现行所得税中R&D税收激励政策中存在的问题和不足,提出了进一步改进和完善的建议。     

Efficiency of Tax Collection and Tax Management in Taiwan's Local Tax Offices

This study investigated the performance of individual departments and the efficiency of resource utilization in tax offices. The results can be used to improve the performance of tax offices and to increase tax revenues. In this study, the operational flow of local tax offices was divided into two stages: tax collection and tax management. Network data envelopment analysis (NDEA) and a Russell directional distance function were used to evaluate operating efficiency in departments of 20 Taiwanese local tax offices for 2013. The results indicated that, first, efficiency was significantly different for tax collection and tax management. Second, the input inefficiency of tax collection was mainly due to total floor area, which was 15% larger than required, and the input inefficiency of tax management was mainly due to total floor area (23% larger than required), followed by direct labour input (19% larger than required). Finally, on average, the amount of collected property transfer taxes was 23% smaller than required. The model used in the present study included undesirable outputs. The findings indicated that the highest levels of overall inefficiency were due to inability to collect taxes (intermediate outputs) in Hsinchu County (9.27%), Chiayi County (3.25%) and Pingtung County (20.44%), which required reduction in the number of instances of inability to collect property taxes by 5619, 1258 and 12 350 cases, respectively. In total, 19 227 fewer cases of uncollectable property taxes in Taiwan would indicate improved arrears settlement and tax prevention measures.     

Tax treatment of owner occupied housing and wealth inequality

We construct a quantitative general equilibrium lifecycle model with housing tenure decisions to investigate the degree to which wealth inequality in the United States is affected by the preferential tax treatment of home-ownership. Favorable tax treatment of owner occupied housing in the form of home mortgage interest and property tax deductibility, and the untaxed nature of imputed rents, provides a financial incentive for home-ownership over renting as well as an incentive to “over-consume” housing since houses are not fungible. Since the favorable tax treatment of housing disproportionately creates tax savings for the upper quantiles of the income distribution, we quantify how it contributes to the heavily right skewed distribution of wealth in the United States using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances. We consider a revenue-neutral government response to the counter factual experiments of removing the current tax structure on housing. Our quantitative analysis shows that, in terms of distributional effects, removing all of the preferential tax treatments results in an aggregate increase in welfare. However, we do not find any reduction in inequality. We also find that while some re-allocation toward financial assets occurs, households primarily increase their consumption when imputed housing rents are taxed and the property tax deduction is removed. Thus housing tax policy may be effective at encouraging more overall saving through housing assets.     

论我国费税制度的改革

费与税是不同的两个概念,而且是政府财政收入形式的两个不同的组成部分,虽然征收对象有所不同,但都是政府的调节工具,这决定了两的征收目的是非盈利性的,一般不能像私人物品那样进行企业化经营,但是税与费各有不同的作用和范围,在供应方式也也不尽相同,所以两又不能互相替代,而我们现在的许多章和件中,却大量的使用“费改税”的不科学提法,因此,有必要明确划分税与费的边界,做到税费共存,税费归位。     

Replacing Corporate Income Tax with a Cash Flow Tax

We design a parsimonious cash flow tax for Australia and estimate revenue effects. It allows immediate deduction of all capital expenditures, denies deductions of interest payments, and compensates negative cash flows at the same rate and time as it taxes positive cash flows. It allows taxpayer timing choice on implementation over 10 years. It has incentive effects comparable to lowering the corporate income tax rate to zero. It removes distortions that artificially favour debt over equity, short- over long-term investments, rents over competitive returns, large, established over small and new businesses, and conventional over innovative investments. It closes international tax evasion loopholes. Its spur to investment and timing of revenue impacts favours implementation in recession.     

Tax Reform,Structural Unemployment and the Environment

The effects of environmental tax reform, i.e., using the proceeds of a higher energy tax rate to lower the labour tax rate, on wage formation, employment and environmental quality are analysed in the context of a small open economy with structural unemployment caused by hiring costs. We find that such a reform may boost employment if it shifts the tax burden away from workers towards those without employment in the formal sector. Environmental tax reform succeeds in shifting the tax burden away from workers in the formal sector if higher energy taxes reduce earnings in the informal sector by reducing labour productivity.     

Green Tax Reform in an Oligopolistic Industry

OECD countries reduce or eliminate certain taxes when they introduce new environmental taxes. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the incidence of such green tax reform in an oligopolistic industry. The paper shows that a rise in taxes could result in the expansion of the aggregate pollution in the presence of a large technology gap. The paper further shows that the government loses tax revenue as a result of the green tax reform if it continues to apply the same environmental standard. This implies that the government needs to raise environmental standards to keep the existing level of public spending after a green tax reform.     

电子商务税源监控和税收征管对策探析

电子商务在全球范围内的迅猛发展,一方面促进了中国经济的发展,开拓了新的税源,加快了税收征管系统的科学化、现代化;另一方面给沿袭多年的传统税收征管体制、税收原则、税收要素等带来了冲击和挑战。电子商务的税源监控可从信息不对称理论、宏观层面、微观层面制定相关政策和措施。     

中国税制改革的税负代际间归宿——世代交叠生命周期税负归宿模型的理论与模拟

文章建立52期世代交叠生命周期税负归宿模型用以研究税制改革的税负在不同年龄人群之间的归宿。也即在考虑完全预期因素和消费者偏好的情况下,通过构建包括家庭、生产和政府三部门在内的方程组模型,来描绘出整个经济的均衡路径,并用此模型对我国税制改革对不同年龄人群福利的影响进行实证分析——计算我国增值税由生产型转为消费型和税制由流转税为主体税种转为以所得税为主体税种的两项最重要的税制改革对不同年龄人群福利的影响。