In recent years tax havens and offshore financial centres have come under increasing political pressure to cooperate with other countries in matters of taxation and e¤orts to crowd back tax evasion and avoidance. As a result many tax havens have signed tax information exchange agreements...

This paper examines the link between the composition of tax revenues and the level of income per capita in the long run. I find that the “tax and growth ranking” suggested by some recent empirical studies is not robust under different assumptions about heterogeneity across countries of the...

This study estimates the effects of revenue-neutral tax structure changes on the long-run level of income per capita using panel data for 17 OECD countries over the period 1970-2004. In contrast to previous studies, we do not find a robust ranking of different types of taxes in terms of their...

We present new empirical evidence that aggregate capital accumulation is strongly influenced by the user cost of capital and, in particular, by corporate tax incentives summarised in the tax-adjusted user cost. We use sectoral panel data for the USA, Japan, Australia and ten EU countries over...

This paper examines tax revenue during the business cycle by estimating the relationship between tax revenue efficiency and the output gap. We find a positive and significant relationship between these variables; results are consistent for quarterly and annual data, and across advanced and...