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040 _aEs-MaIEF
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_cES-MaIEF
100 1 _964594
_aCashin, David
245 4 _aThe spending and consumption response to a VAT rate increase
_c David Cashin and Takashi Unayama
260 _c2021
500 _aDisponible también en formato electrónico.
500 _aResumen.
504 _aBibliografía.
520 _aThis study estimates the effect of an increase in Japan’s value-added tax (VAT) rate on the timing of household expenditures and consumption, which do not necessarily coincide. The empirical analysis finds that spending on a wide range of durables and storables surged in the months prior to the tax rate increase, fell sharply upon implementation, but returned to their previous long-run levels within a few months. Nonstorable, nondurable expenditures increased slightly in the month prior to the tax rate increase but were otherwise unresponsive. A dynamic structural model of household consumption reveals that the observed spending responses were driven by stockpiling behavior, the insensitivity of durable and nondurable consumption to the tax rate increase, and strong complementarities between durables and nondurables. By mapping durable and storable expenditures into consumption, the model allows for a considerably more precise estimate of the intertemporal elasticity of substitution in consumption than the standard method, which focuses on nondurable spending only. The results, external validity checks, and marginal excess burden calculation suggest that anticipated changes in VAT rates have a large, though highly transitory, impact on household spending that generates miniscule efficiency costs.
650 4 _950141
_aIMPUESTO SOBRE EL VALOR AÑADIDO
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_aINCREMENTO
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_aCONSUMO FAMILIAR
650 4 _944856
_aGASTOS
650 4 _947522
_aJAPON
650 4 _947776
_aMODELOS ECONOMETRICOS
700 1 _964595
_aUnayama, Takashi
773 0 _9165527
_oOP 233/2021/2
_tNational Tax Journal
_w(IEF)86491
_x 0028-0283
_gv. 74, n. 2, June 2021, p. 313-346
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