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Taxing Risky Investment

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Michael P. Devereux () (Centre for Business Taxation, Said Business School, University of Oxford)

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This paper re-examines the impact of consumption and capital income taxes on (a) the incentive to undertake risky investment and (b) the revenue generated from such taxes. It challenges a well-known claim in the literature that a capital income tax with full loss offset can leave incentives to invest "basically unaffected" because the tax liability is offset by a reduction in the post-tax risk of the investment. Instead, it argues that such a tax would have a significantly negative impact on the incentive to invest.

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Paper provided by Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation in its series Working Papers with number 0919.

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H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
H32 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Firm
E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Capital; Investment; Capacity

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  1. Michael P. Devereux, 2003. "Measuring Taxes on Income from Capital," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Paolo Panteghini, 2005. "S-Based Taxation under Default Risk," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]
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