Investigating the Structural Changes of Tax in Iran
Alireza Shakibaei () and
MohammadReza Ahmadinejad ()
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Alireza Shakibaei: Department of Economics, University of Shahid Bahonar, Kerman, Iran
MohammadReza Ahmadinejad: Department of Economics, University of Shahid Bahonar, Kerman, Iran
Iranian Economic Review (IER), 2016, vol. 20, issue 4, 445-460
Abstract:
Structural change is defined as a change in the relative weight of the important constituents of the macro-economic indicator such as production, taxes, imports and exports, workforce etc. Since the structure change is one of the main reasons for the growth and economic development of countries, the investigation of the trend of changes in economic important constituents is important. Tax as an important source of state revenue is one of the most significant macroeconomic indicators; furthermore it is the most important instrument of the sate’s fiscal policy. So due to the important position of tax in the countries’ economy, evaluating the trend of changes in the tax structure is of paramount importance. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the structural changes of taxes in Iran, by Bai and Perron method, for the period 1971-2012. The results based on the UDmax and WDmax tests show that there is at least one breakpoint in the movement process of all taxes in Iran; also based on the sequential procedure all breaks have not lead to the structural changes and Iran have not had the structure changes in income tax.
Keywords: Structural Breaks; Tax Structure Changes; Bai and Perron Method; Iran. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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