Author: Minnesota Tax Commission (1907-1939)
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 38
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Committee on Taxation
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Virginia. General Assembly. Joint Subcommittee Studying the Taxation of Telephone Companies
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 9
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jerry A. Hausman
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary spending limits, Congress is unable to increase general taxes to pay for social programs and thus funds these programs from taxes on specific sectors of the economy. In this paper I consider the Congressional legislation which established a program so that all public schools and libraries in the U.S. will receive subsidized service to the Internet. The cost of the program is estimated to be $2.25 billion per year. Congress passed legislation that directed all users of interstate telephone service to pay for the program. Using analytical methods from public finance, I calculate the efficiency cost to the economy of the higher taxation of interstate telephone services to fund the Internet access discounts. I estimate the cost to the economy of raising the $2.25 billion per year to be at least $2.36 billion (in addition to the $2.25 billion of tax revenue), or the efficiency loss to the economy for every $1 raised to pay for the Internet access discounts is an additional $1.05 to $1.25 beyond the money raised for the Internet discounts. This cost to the economy is extremely high compared to other taxes used by the Federal government to raise revenues. I discuss an alternative method by which the FCC could have raised the revenue for the Internet discounts which would have a near zero cost to the economy.
Author: Minnesota Tax Study Commission (1983- )
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 86
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Internal Revenue Service
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ms.Thornton Matheson
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2017-11-15
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 1484324986
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Developing countries apply numerous sector-specific taxes to telecommunications, whose buoyant revenues and formal enterprises provide a convenient “tax handle”. This paper explores whether there is an economic rationale for sector-specific taxes on telecommunications and, if so, what form they should take to balance the competing goals of promoting connectivity and mobilizing revenues. A survey of the literature finds that limited telecoms competition likely creates rents that could efficiently be taxed. We propose a “pecking order” of sector-specific taxes that could be levied in addition to standard income and value-added taxes, based on capturing rents and minimizing distortions. Taxes that target possible economic rents or profits are preferable, but their administrative challenges may necessitate reliance on service excises at the cost of higher consumer prices and lower connectivity. Taxes on capital inputs and consumer access, which distort production and restrict network access, should be avoided; so should tax incentives, which are not needed to attract foreign capital to tap a local market.