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La Curva de Laffer y la optimización del recaudo tributario en Cartagena de Indias
[The Laffer Courve and government optimization of the tax revenues: The Cartagena de Indias case]

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  • Toro González, Daniel
  • Doria, Martha

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The public managers worries to increase the local government revenues are almost always related with changes in the tax rates, affecting all the agents in the economy. However, at the same time tax exeptions are used like policy instrument in order to achieve economic growth in some sectors, increasing the pressure over some other sectors. This document analize the effect of the tax rates changes over the local government revenues by the estimation of elasticities. This relation is known as the Laffer Courve. The main results show an inelastic relation between the tax rate and the revenues, wich means that an increase of 1% in the tax rate generate an increase in local government revenues in less than a 1%. The results of the model sugesst that a local policy oriented to raise the local government revenues increasing the tax rate is not effective.

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  • Toro González, Daniel & Doria, Martha, 2007. "La Curva de Laffer y la optimización del recaudo tributario en Cartagena de Indias [The Laffer Courve and government optimization of the tax revenues: The Cartagena de Indias case]," MPRA Paper 2703, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Cartagena; local government revenues; tax rates; Laffer Courve;
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    JEL classification:

    • H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
    • H30 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - General

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