我国不同地区宏观税负差异分析

税收负担适度与否不仅关系到国家能够集中的财力,而且涉及到纳税人的正常生产生活。为了使我国区域经济协调发展,缩小地区间的税负差异是非常必要的。     

结构负利：流通业比重与地区经济增长*

作为国民经济中的基础性和先导性产业,流通业在国民经济中的比重呈现先下降后上升的U型演变趋势。本文利用扩展的索罗模型和中国省际地区面板数据探讨流通业比重变化对地区总体生产率和经济增长的影响。研究结果表明,首先,地区总体生产率与流通业比重呈显著的负相关关系。其次,地区人均产出增长率与当期流通业比重呈负相关关系,而与上期流通业比重呈正相关关系。流通业比重对地区人均产出增长率的净效应既受到地区总体生产率与流通业比重之间负向关系的影响,也受到地区经济增长收敛性的影响。根据模拟实验,2009-2014年中国流通业比重上升导致人均产出增长率约下降136个百分点。最后,地区流通效率在“流通业比重-总体生产率-经济增长”关系中发挥着明显的调节作用。在流通效率越高的地区,流通业比重上升对地区总体生产率和地区人均产出增长率的负向作用越弱。因此,地方政府可以通过提高本地区流通效率来缓解流通业比重上升带来的“结构负利”。     

持续经济增长目标下的最优税负和税收结构调整

在经济持续增长目标下,通过识别宏观税负与经济增长的计量关系,我国最优宏观税负应为16.47%。这低于实际宏观税负水平,需要进行较大幅度的减税。根据税收影响经济增长的渠道,通过核算行业TFP,促进长期增长条件下的税收结构调整需要重点降低营业税。     

THE CREATION OF A MICRODATA FILE FOR ESTIMATING THE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME*

This paper describes the methods used by the Office of Business Economics, U.S. Department of Commerce, in creating a microdata file for use in estimating the size distribution of income. It explains the techniques of statistical matching involved in merging microdata files from various sources to correct and supplement income estimates in the original field survey (The Current Population Survey) and to incorporate additional information that can be used to estimate items and types of income not contained in the original file.     

THEORY OF THE STATE, GOVERNMENT TAX AND PURCHASING POLICY, AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION

Until recently, there has been virtually no discussion among professional economists of the impact of government expenditures on the distribution of income.¹ Neoclassical economics has traditionally shown little interest in distributional issues. Little is said beyond the assumption that factors are paid their marginal products. Micro economics is said to take a “neutral” stance with regard to distributional issues. Static efficiency of allocation is attainable for any income distribution, and consequently, so the parable goes, no income distribution is superior on purely economic grounds to any other. Macro economics also purports to be neutral with respect to distribution. Government expenditures in Keynes' model appear as an undifferentiated blob called “G”. The only interest macro economics takes in distribution issues is concerned with the marginal effect of redistribution on the marginal propensity to consume out of income. Keynesian economics, therefore, is unable to say whether one form of government expenditure is superior to another so long as both accomplish macro objectives. When orthodox economists have approached the issue of the government's distributional impact, they have until recently focused solely on its use of taxes and transfer payments. Public finance has traditionally ignored the expenditure side of state activity since, after all, government activity was a necessary evil, benefiting no one. Gillespie's path-breaking study in 1965 finally acknowledged the utility of government spending, but his analysis and those that have followed in the orthodox tradition have been hampered by a number of awkward premises. First, the orthodox studies of fiscal incidence implicitly accept the view of the government as a neutral arbiter rather than a protagonist of the dominant classes in society. Second, benefits of government services are assumed to be accurately measured by outlays. Thus, if we find that the government spends four times as much on highways as on police, it is assumed that the utility of highways is four times that of police even though one cannot even imagine the continuity of the status quo without the police while many responsible citizens argue that we should drastically curtail outlays on roads. Obviously, the utility of the police in terms of system maintenance exceeds that of the more expensive highway expenditures. Third, it is assumed that for each dollar spent by the government, only one person will benefit when, in fact, many disparate groups can benefit from the same expenditure. A dollar spent on education benefits the student as well as hislher employer. Fourth, Gillespie and his orthodox followers ignore any effect of the government on the pre-tax, pre-transfer distribution of income which they take as given. A hypothesis which we examine in this paper is that the government has an enormous influence over the shape of the pre-tax, pre-transfer income distribution. A more general criticism of previous studies of fiscal incidence is that they suffer from a poorly defined theory of the state. This assertion is most clzarly illustrated by the categorization in previous studies of a wide variety of public exp-enditures as “public goods” (such as national military expenditures). The benefits of these “public goods” are allocated among various income groups in several ways, for example on the basis of wealth ownership (both productive and consumptive) or on a per capita basis. The method of allocation chosen has enormous consequences for one's estimate of overall fiscal incidence. According to Herriot and Miller, those with incomes over $50,000 either receive a net benefit of 4.5 percent of their total income from the government or lose 42.1 percent, depending upon the allocation formula chosen for public goods. Previous studies have taken an agnostic position with respect to the appropriateness of the several allocative assumptions. But this is merely simple empiricism without theoreticai foundation, and thus the formulation of specific hypotheses which employ scientific procedures is impossible. What is needed to provide an interpretation of the data is a well-articulated theory of the state-an area to which we turn our attention in the next section of this paper.     

我国个人所得税：如何调节收入分配

传统观点认为个人所得税是公平与效率权衡的产物。但是,这种结论并没有考虑逃税因素。如果将逃税因素纳入分析框架,个人所得税调节收入分配的机制在不同条件下将存在差异,公平与效率可能同时实现。本文从公众收入中存在的隐性收入出发,分析了这种收入对个人所得税调节收入分配的影响,并总结出个人所得税存在高结构累进性与低结构累进性两种再分配机制。对于我国而言,低结构累进性的个人所得税才能发挥调节收入分配的作用。     

我国税制结构对居民收入分配影响的分析与思考

我国国民贫富差距较大已是不争的事实。尽管政府在税收方面采取了很多政策举措,希冀对居民收入分配进行调节,但效果并不十分理想,其主要原因在于我国当前的税制结构并不利于缩小贫富差距。以流转税为主体的税制结构使税制整体呈现出累退性,个人所得税对工薪收入的过分关注以及对财产性收入调节的缺位,增强了个人所得税制收入分配逆向调节的特征,财产税的缺失导致富裕家庭大量财产游离于政府税收制度调节之外。     

碳税对我国城镇居民收入分配的累退效应与碳补贴方案设计

本文以碳税的收入分配效应为研究对象,将碳税的收入分配效应分解为直接效应与间接效应,采用《中国统计年鉴2011》、《中国城市统计年鉴2010》、《2007年投入产出表》相关数据,运用收入支出法、投入产出表原理测算了两种效应作用下的我国碳税累退性情况,进而在综合效应分析的基础上,模拟测算两种碳税补贴政策对累退性的纠正效应。测算结果表明,碳税的征收存在明显的累退性,其中,直接效应与间接效应对碳税累退性的贡献不同,直接效应贡献更大,可以解释大部分累退性。同时,按收入水平的有梯度的碳税补贴政策对纠正累退性效果更为显著。     

ESTIMATING THE RANK OF COINTEGRATION AFTER ESTIMATING THE ORDER OF A VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION*

Small sample properties are studied for the maximum likelihood test in determining the rank of cointegration. Firstly, some statistical methods are developed to determine the lag order of the vector auto-regressive (VAR) processes with unit roots. The asymptotic x² distribution of the likelihood ratio statistic is proved. Then the asymptotic standard normal distribution of the t-ratio is established for coefficients of differenced variables in the error correction representation. The t-ratio can be used to test the significance of individual coefficients in the highest order term of VAR processes without using any information on co-integration. The small sample properties of the likelihood ratio test, the t-test, AIC, and BIC are explored by simulations which are found indispensable in finding the order of VAR processes possibly with unit roots. Furthermore, and most importantly, our simulation shows that the trace test for finding the rank of co-integration does not depend much on the lag order selection criteria. Whichever procedure is used to find the lag order of a VAR process, the trace or the maximum eigen value test may on average give a similar rank of co-integration though this can be wrong.     

IMPACT OF TAX, TRANSFER, AND EXPENDITURE POLICIES OF GOVERNMENT ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONAL INCOME IN CANADA

This is a study of the first order incidence of government taxation and expenditure policies on the incomes of families and unattached individuals in Canada in 1970. The specific purposes of the study are twofold. The first is to estimate for calendar year 1970 the first order incidence of governments'actual tax, transfer, and expenditure policies on spending units. The second objective is to simulate the changes in this incidence that would have occurred in 1970 if the new federal personal income tax, unemployment insurance, old age sccurity and family allowance programs had been in operation during that year. The methodology is similar to that used by W. Irwin Gillespie in his pioneering 1964 study for the Royal Commission on Taxation.
It is concluded that the 1970 incidence of the combined tax and transfer programs of all levels of government is broadly redistributive, with net incidence of federal government programs being considerably more redistributive than that of provincial and local governments. In general, the public sector provides large net benefits to families and individuals with incomes of less than $4,000, declining net benefits to families earning from $4,000 to $11,000 and levies small but increasing levels of net tax on families and individuals with incomes in excess of $11,000. This general conclusion is relatively insensitive to the precise assumptions made about the shifting of taxes and the distribution of expenditures on pure public goods. From simulation experiments, recent reforms of the federal income tax, unemployment insurance, old age security and family allowance systems were estimated to increase the amount of redistribution from the rich to the poor.     

ON THE CONSUMPTION TAX AND THE TAX TREATMENT OF BEQUESTS IN DIFFERENT MODELS OF BEQUEATHING BEHAVIOUR*

The tax treatment of bequests under the consumption tax policy is studied in two models of bequeathing behaviour, a model where the parent cares about the bequest itself and a model where the parent cares about the welfare of his offspring instead. It is shown that the two models make precisely opposite predictions of the effects of the consumption tax including the conditions under which the tax is neutral, the differential incidence of the tax in a closed economy when it is non-neutral, and the international transmission effect of the tax when it is non-neutral.     

TO TAX OR NOT TO TAX? THE CASE OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE

Despite the intensifying debate over the taxation of Internet commerce, the relevant issues have not been given a systematic treatment in the context of the literature on optimal taxation. This article presents such an analysis and investigates separately the taxation of business purchases of intermediate goods, the taxation of consumer purchases of final goods and services, and the various issues of administration and compliance costs as they apply to the development of E-commerce. The authors conclude that generally the optimal tax literature cannot be used in support of a blanket tax exemption for Internet purchases. Certain conditions could lead to the optimality of an exemption, but those conditions are not likely to be met in practice.     

ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF AN INCOME TAX

The paper proposes an indicator of the performance of a tax and benefit system in generating a high level of social welfare. Under standard assumptions on the form of the admissible social welfare functions, the indicator is shown to be increasing in the progressivity of the system. Using UK household data for 1985, the paper asks (i) What can the performance of a tax system with constant residual progression be? (ii) Relative to a proportional system, what is the performance of existing or proposed tax and benefit systems? (iii) How can we estimate the average residual progression of unevenly progressive tax and benefit systems?     

全国企业负担调查评价报告

为落实党中央、国务院关于减轻企业负担工作的部署,维护企业合法权益,加强对全国企业特别是中小企业负担状况的监测,探索企业负担评价工作,课题组在各省市提供的宏观数据及企业负担调查问卷获得的微观数据基础上,运用科学的统计分析方法,进行数据的筛查和整理,探索设计和构建了企业负担相关指数,旨在简单、直观地反映企业负担情况,并提出初步的政策建议,为减轻企业负担提供科学的决策依据。