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The purpose of this thesis is twofold: First, it aims at detecting empirical regularities of the business cycle in Denmark, Germany and the U.S. Second, it tries to give a theoretical explanation for these stylized facts. The thesis is fully in line with the modern analysis of business cycles in...
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Macroeconomic theory often strictly separates cyclical analysis from trend analysis. Whereas the former is identified …
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The article builds on the Hall-Rabushka Flat Tax and proposes a consumption tax called the “E Tax,” which is an … electronically collected credit invoice VAT. The Hall-Rabushka Flat Tax is a two-tier consumption tax that is based on a subtraction … to the VAT rate, with a zero bracket amount, personal exemptions and limited individual deductions. The E Tax modifies …
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the present value of tax liabilities are calculated, by using an after-tax risk-free discount rate, and incorporating any … new or reduced tax liabilities generated into its expected risk and return estimates. The asset allocation problem is … marginal tax rates, investment horizons, borrowing premiums, high or low inflation environments, and different starting cost …
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of movement, control, and in the end, power. Management of this resource and the tax revenue it generates are of serious … is important to international relations as well. The tax system affects tax revenue, government actions, oil company …
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Act allows the state to tax a financial institution's percentage of business conducted within the state. The Act …
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behavior between these two approaches, then this may indicate that the current tax policy institutions are failing and need …
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This paper weights the relative advantages of multiple factors that lead to the success of professional sports stadiums in major markets, though a discussion of the arguments for and against public subsidies towards these projects. Using a logit statistical model, the paper determines that the...
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I was previously Director of Mutual Agreement Procedures, National Tax Agency ('NTA'), in Japan. This paper was written … be viewed as a successful model whereby tax authorities have reached agreement in a considerable number of cases of …
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This paper considers a range of issues affecting Japan's contemporary economic well-being. Japan has continued toward sustained, full-employment growth, though its path has been idiosyncratic and its pace has been erratic. GDP growth in 2006 was a respectable 2.2 percent, driven by business...
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