Financial VAT may improve trade openness

Julio López-Laborda and Guillermo Peña

Applied Economics, 2022, vol. 54, issue 19, 2148-2160

Abstract: This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes how the taxation of financial services under VAT (‘financial VAT’) influences trade openness. The empirical analysis uses data from the OECD and 36 European Union countries for the period 1960–2019. Dynamic panel data techniques are used, concretely the GMM System, and an unbalanced panel is handled. The results corroborate that financial VAT, and in particular the ‘option-to-tax’ method applied by some countries in the European Union, are positively associated with a country’s trade openness.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2021.1985072

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