Tax Interdependence in American States

Claudio Agostini

No 155, Econometric Society 2004 Latin American Meetings from Econometric Society

Abstract: State governments finance their expenditures with multiple tax instruments, so when collections from one source decline, they are typically compensated by greater revenues from other sources. This paper addresses the important question of the extent to which personal and corporate income taxes are used to compensate for sales tax fluctuations within the U.S. states. The results show that one percent increase in the sales tax rate is associated with a half and a third percent decrease in the personal and corporate income tax rates respectively. In terms of tax revenues per capita, the results show that a one percent increase in the sales tax revenue per capita is associated with a 3 percent and a 0.9 percent decrease in the corporate and personal income tax revenue per capita respectively. On average then, an exogenous reduction of $4.5 in the sales tax revenue per capita is compensated, ceteris paribus, with an increase of either $3.4 in the collections per capita from corporate taxes or $3.6 in the ones from personal income taxes

Keywords: tax mix; state taxes; instrumental variables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H71 H21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-08-11
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