Do value-added taxes affect international trade flows? evidence from 30 years of tax reforms Youssef Benzarti, Alisa Tazhitdinova
By: Benzarti, Youssef
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Contributor(s): Tazhitdinova, Alisa.
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ArticlePublisher: 2021Subject(s): IMPUESTO SOBRE EL VALOR AÑADIDO | INCIDENCIA Y TRASLACION | COMERCIO INTERNACIONAL | ELASTICIDAD IMPOSITIVA | UNION EUROPEA
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American Economic Journal : Economic Policy v. 13, n. 4, November 2021, p. 469-489Summary: This paper uses all value-added tax (VAT) changes across EU Member States from 1988 to 2016 to estimate the effect of VATs on trade flows. We find small elasticities of trade flows with respect to VATs, even when VAT changes are large. These elasticities are substantially smaller than the elasticities of trade flows with respect to tariffs estimated in the trade literature. This finding holds across different time periods, countries, and types of reforms. Our results imply that VATs are unlikely to distort trade flows.
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This paper uses all value-added tax (VAT) changes across EU Member States from 1988 to 2016 to estimate the effect of VATs on trade flows. We find small elasticities of trade flows with respect to VATs, even when VAT changes are large. These elasticities are substantially smaller than the elasticities of trade flows with respect to tariffs estimated in the trade literature. This finding holds across different time periods, countries, and types of reforms. Our results imply that VATs are unlikely to distort trade flows.
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