Simulating the Elimination of the U.S. Corporate Income Tax
We simulate corporate tax reform in a single good, five-region (U.S., Europe, Japan, China, India) model, featuring skilled and unskilled labor, detailed region-specific demographics and fiscal policies. Eliminating the model's U.S. corporate income tax produces rapid and dramatic increases in the model's level of U.S. investment, output, and real wages, making the tax cut self-financing to a significant extent. Somewhat smaller gains arise from revenue-neutral base broadening, specifically cutting the corporate tax rate to 9 percent and eliminating tax loop-holes.
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Copy CitationHans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch, Ashwin Kambhampati, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff, "Simulating the Elimination of the U.S. Corporate Income Tax," NBER Working Paper 19757 (2013), https://doi.org/10.3386/w19757.
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