Baugh, Brian
[Verfasser:in]
;
Park, Hoonsuk
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Ben-David, Itzhak
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]National Bureau of Economic Research
Can Taxes Shape an Industry? Evidence from the Implementation of the “Amazon Tax”
Erschienen:
Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2014
Erschienen in:NBER working paper series ; no. w20052
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Englisch
DOI:
10.3386/w20052
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For years, online retailers have maintained a price advantage over brick-and-mortar retailers by not collecting sales tax at the time of sale. Recently, several states have required that online retailer Amazon collect sales tax during checkout. Using transaction-level data, we document that households living in these states reduced Amazon purchases by 9.4% after sales tax laws were implemented, implying elasticities ranging from -1.2 to -1.4. The effect is more pronounced for large purchases, for which we estimate a reduction of 29.1% in purchases, corresponding to an elasticity of -3.9. Studying competitors in the electronics field, we detect some evidence of substitution toward competing retailers