• Medientyp: E-Book; Bericht
  • Titel: A Comparison of Sales Taxes
  • Beteiligte: Gang, Ira N. [VerfasserIn]; Das-Gupta, Arindam [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University, Department of Economics, 1997
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Schlagwörter: retail ; efficiency ; sales tax ; deadweight loss ; VAT ; H2 ; H25 ; H21
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  • Beschreibung: We describe the simple analytics of the four main types of sales taxes under revenue neutrality: the retail sales tax, the value added tax, a cascading sales tax and a manufacturers' sales tax. The retail sales tax is shown to be equivalent to a value added tax. In order to produce equal revenues these two taxes must be at a higher rate than a cascading tax. However, output under a retail sales tax exceeds that under a cascading sales tax and deadweight losses are lower. The manufacturers' sales tax offers the worst of all worlds: with revenue neutrality the manufacturers' sales tax has a higher tax rate, lower output and greater deadweight loss than all the other taxes.
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