IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/mhr/finarc/urndoi10.1628-fa-2020-0007.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Tax Elasticity Estimates for Capital Stocks

Author

Listed:
  • Jean-François Wen
  • Fatih Yılmaz

Abstract

We use panel cointegration techniques to estimate the long-run, tax-adjusted, user cost elasticity of capital (UCE) in a small open economy. The estimates exploit three sources of variation in Canadian tax policy: across provinces, industries, and years. The UCE is estimated to be between -1.1 and -1.3 for machinery and equipment. We also provide semielasticities of capital with respect to marginal effective tax rates (METR). Our construction of the user costs makes use of a detailed data set on federal and provincial tax policy variables.

Suggested Citation

  • Jean-François Wen & Fatih Yılmaz, 2020. "Tax Elasticity Estimates for Capital Stocks," FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 76(3), pages 215-239.
    • Handle: RePEc:mhr:finarc:urn:doi:10.1628/fa-2020-0007
    DOI: 10.1628/fa-2020-0007
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/tax-elasticity-estimates-for-capital-stocks-101628fa-2020-0007
    Download Restriction: Fulltext access is included for subscribers to the printed version.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1628/fa-2020-0007?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to look for a different version below or search for a different version of it.

    Other versions of this item:

    More about this item

    Keywords

    capital taxation; user cost of capital elasticity; marginal effective tax rate;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
    • H32 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Firm

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:mhr:finarc:urn:doi:10.1628/fa-2020-0007. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Thomas Wolpert (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/fa .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.