THE LAGGED IMPACT OF STATE AND LOCAL TAXES ON ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
- 1 July 1986
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Economic Inquiry
- Vol. 24 (3) , 389-401
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.1986.tb01818.x
Abstract
Politicians are frequently characterized as making fiscal decisions based on a shorter time horizon than is required for full taxpayer adjustment, thus generating near term benefits and relatively high tax rates. This argument requires a negative impact of taxes on economic activity distributed over a relatively long time period. Considerable empirical evidence suggests that state and local taxes do not significantly impact the geographic distribution of economic activity; this analysis, however, finds a significant negative distributed lag impact of such taxes on capital formation. The approach emphasizes interstate tax competition in formulating the cross‐section time‐series estimating equation.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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