On Calculus Of Fiscal Impact Of Investment Incentives

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On Calculus Of Fiscal Impact Of Investment Incentives

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Peter Bolcha

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The paper focuses on selective investment incentives. The main aim is to discuss question how to quantify net fiscal impact properly. As shown, the problem is not trivial - the proper quantification presupposes using of several parameters, accounting of costs in the economic sense of this word (i.e. also opportunity costs) and using concept of present value. Including these aspects in the calculation would correct some extremely optimistic scenarios (of studies concerning Czech economy), which claim, that fiscal incentives yield significantly high net surplus to the state budget. The parameter representing the ability of incentives to attract investors seems to be one of the most important components of the correct calculation. Another important point is a necessity of symmetric accounting: some of the other studies implement two expenditures rounds on the side of fiscal benefits, whereas they neglect the second round on the side of costs.

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Article provided by University of Economics, Prague in its journal Politická ekonomie.

Volume (Year): 2008 (2008)
Issue (Month): 2 ()
Pages: 257-274
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Handle: RePEc:prg:jnlpol:v:2008:y:2008:i:2:id:640:p:257-274

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