Tax concessions and foreign direct investmentin the eastern caribbean currency union / / Jingqing Chai and Rishi Goyal

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464247703321
• Autore: Chai Jingqing
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Washington, District of Columbia] : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008; ©2008
• ISBN: 1-4623-2350-2; 1-4527-3293-0; 1-4518-7115-5; 9786612842085; 1-282-84208-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (35 p.)
• Collana: IMF Working Papers; IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/257
• Altri autori (Persone): GoyalRishi
• Disciplina: 332.673
• Soggetti: Tax credits - Caribbean Area - Econometric models; Investments, Foreign - Caribbean Area - Econometric models; Monetary unions - Caribbean Area - Econometric models; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; I. Introduction; II. Tax Concessions in the ECCU; A. Firm-Level Analysis; Figures; 1. Regional Comparisons: GDP Growth and Tourism Receipts; Tables; 1. Firm Size and Concessions: A Rank Correlation Analysis; B. Purposes of Concessions; III. Revenue Costs of Concessions; 2. Concessions by Purpose; A. Exemptions from Import Duties and Taxes; 3. ECCU: Customs Revenue Losses from Concessions; 2. ECCU: Import-Related Taxes and Revenue Forgone from Concessions; B. Corporate Income Tax Holidays; 3. ECCU: Corporate Income Taxes and Revenue Forgone from Concessions; 4. ECCU: Corporate Income Tax CollectionsC. Revenue Collection from Removing Concessions: An Elasticies Approach; IV. Benefits of Incentives: FDI Performance in the ECCU; 5. Revenue Gains from the Removal of Concessions: An Elasticities Approach; 6. FDI Performance ; Index; 4. FDI/GDP and Tax Concessions; 7. Data for Cross-Country Regression Analysis: Summary Statistics; 5. FDI/GDP and FDI Restrictions Index; 6. FDI/GDP and FDI Incentives Index; 7. FDI/GDP and Statutory Corporate Income Tax Rate; 8. FDI/GDP and Statutory Import-Related Tax Rate; 8. Cross-Country Ordinary Least Square Regressions: Dependent Variable Ln (FDI/GDP)V. Policy Alternatives; 9. Cross-Country Ordinary Least Square Regressions: Dependent Variable Ln (FDI per capita); 10. Tax Holidays: An Illustrative Example; 11. Accelerated Depreciation and Loss Carry Forward: An Illustrative Example; VI. Conclusions; Appendices; I. Calculating the Change in Revenue from Removing Import-Related Tax Concessions; II. Constructing Foreign Direct Investment Regime Indices; Appendix Tables; II.1. Government Policies Toward Foreign Direct Investment; References
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