State taxation and the reallocation of business activity: Evidence from establishment-level data

Using census microdata on multistate firms and their organizational forms, we estimate the impact of state taxes on business activity. For C corporations, employment and the number of establishments have short-run corporate tax elasticities of-0.4 to-0.5 and do not vary with changes in personal tax...

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Main Authors: Giroud, X. (Author), Rauh, J. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press 2019
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