Affiliation:
1. Department of Economics University of Toronto
2. Rotman School of Management University of Toronto
Abstract
A decade ago, several Canadian provinces replaced the retail sales taxes with value-added taxes. This paper estimates the effects of this tax substitution on consumer prices in the reforming provinces. Consistent with theory, we find that the resulting effective tax-rate changes were shifted forward to consumers in most sectors of the economy. The overall effect on tax-inclusive consumer prices was small, albeit perhaps somewhat regressive.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Subject
Public Administration,Sociology and Political Science
Cited by
10 articles.
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