Managing the Public Debt: The Optimal Taxation Approach

This paper examines research on public debt management, focusing on debt structure by denomination, indexation features, and maturity. The optimal taxation approach is reviewed and its policy implications are related to the trade-off between minimization of the expected cost of debt servicing and minimization of budgetary risk. Strong arguments are provided for debt instruments which yield low returns when output and hence revenues are lower and public spending higher than expected. This debt design minimizes tax distortions and provides flexibility in conducting fiscal policy. The exact characterization of the debt composition which supports efficient taxation depends on the stochastic structure of the economy. Long-term nominal debt is a hedge against supply shocks affecting revenues and inflation and makes the government budget insensitive to interest-rate risk. However, at high levels of debt, the extent of insurance or flexibility that governments can obtain by issuing long-term nominal debt is limited by the need to maintain the credibility of the anti-inflation stance.     

谁在阻挠内外资所得税统一

政府对中国经济的决策重心从注重引进外资转变到注重营造市场公平环境“一个主权国家的财政政策,任何时候都可以自主改变。”1月16日,财政部副部长楼继伟在回应54家跨国公司上书认为中国拟统一内外企所得税是“政策说变就变”时说。这54家跨国公司的名单里包括了几乎所有公众熟悉的大佬:微软、摩托罗拉、戴尔、宜家、三星等。早在2004年6月1日的财政部税政工作会议上,就透露出“两税合一”方案的细枝末节,其中包括对外资企业税收优惠的过渡期。这54家跨国公司在应财政部邀请参与调研时则希望中国政府能够延长对外资企业优惠政策的过渡期。“…     

Distorted Signals The Taxation of Interest

Should interest be taxed? Alexandra Hardie, of Exeter University, argues that the taxation of interest acts as a major distortion of the economy.     

Taxation and Housing Tenure Choice: The Case for Moderate-Income Homeownership

This study explores the financial value of homeownership for households in the 15% Federal tax bracket. Earlier studies concluded homeownership was only for households with high marginal tax rates, but they neglected how vacancy and turnover rates factor into rental prices. Principal innovations here include deriving long-run equilibrium rent-to-value ratios for the rental market and contrasting investor holding periods with lengths of household tenures. Tax regime simulations are performed for homeowner deductions and investor capital gains tax rates.     

海航迷雾

看不懂的背后,深藏着海航强烈的不安定感;激进爬升19年的海航机队,为何一直没有进入平飞状态?多年蝶变却—再招致质疑,它能摆脱德隆宿命吗?     

资源税费改革探析

矿产资源是人类社会赖以生存和发展的物质基础，是工业生产进行的血液，是国民经济发展的重要生产要素。目前，我国80％的工业原料取自矿产资源，95％以上的能源来自矿物能源，矿产资源的需求十分广泛，但矿产资源的供给却非常有限。本文从分析我国现行矿业税费制度的弊端入手，对我国矿业税费改革提出建议。     

拉弗曲线与税收行为中的混沌特征

本文研究了税收中拉弗曲线（Laffer curve）隐含的混沌特征。分析表明,在拉弗曲线平滑上升的表面现象背后,隐藏着一种无序的状态或混沌特征,因此,在经济发展、税基扩大的情况下,应慎重提高税率,防止税收的大起大落。     

The Effect of Cross-Border Group Taxation on Ownership Chains

ABSTRACT

This study investigates the influence of taxation on ownership chains and specifically on the location decision for intermediate holding companies. By examining the effect of the introduction of a cross-border group taxation regime in Austria in 2005 on ownership chains of European multinational firms, I find evidence that foreign parent companies already invested in Austria restructured their ownership chains in order to meet the requirements of the group taxation regime. This effect is larger for foreign parent companies with loss-generating subsidiaries. Collectively, the empirical findings suggest that, when evaluating the effect of cross-border group taxation regimes, companies follow a detailed tax planning strategy that takes tax-base effects into account.     

The CAP: History and attempts at reform

This article outlines the economic consequences of the CAP, including the high level of protection, the burdens on consumers, taxpayers and the EU budget, environmental damage, the harm to international trading relations, and the failure to raise farmers' incomes. The numerous unsuccessful attempts at reform from 1968 to 1999 are described. Finally, some of the lessons of the reform attempts are drawn, including the apparent political impossibility of reducing farm support and bureaucratic intervention once it is in place.     

Welfare Taxation: Opting Out to Shrink the State

Spending on welfare has resisted reform and remains the biggest obstacle to cutting taxes in Britain. Colin Clark, now teaching at the University of Queensland, suggests the radical measure of allowing taxpayers to keep their taxes and choose between competing private suppliers of state health care, education, pensions, and other 'services'.     

Taxation and Economic Growth

A bstract The effects of vorious tax policies on economic growth are recx amined on the basis of the recently developed endogenous growth therory The assertion of Henry George that the structure of taxation is more important than the level of taxation in explaining economic growth is elaborated and verified Annual data for Taiwan from 1954 to 1986 shows that the aggregate tax rate does not have significant effect on the long run growth rates of private ouptup, consumption and production factor inputs This result is due to the poostivie effect of consumption taxation offsetting the negative effect of factor taxation on economic growth