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Tax incentives and investment in the UK

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Business investment is one of the most volatile components of demand. Whether or not tax policy can be used to boost investment is an age-old policy question. After documenting both how tax policy has changed since 1980 and the impact of these changes on the cost of capital, this paper investigates that question using a UK dataset. The paper shows that tax changes have had large impacts on the user cost of capital, but that estimates of the user cost elasticity imply quite small impacts on the long-run capital stock. Adopting an alternative experimental approach for the first time using UK data shows large impacts of taxation on investment in periods following the announcement of major reforms.

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  • Gavin Wallis, 2016. "Tax incentives and investment in the UK," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 68(2), pages 465-483.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:oxecpp:v:68:y:2016:i:2:p:465-483.
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    1. Peter Goodridge & Jonathan Haskel, 2023. "Accounting for the slowdown in UK innovation and productivity," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 90(359), pages 780-812, July.
    2. Isabel Busom & Beatriz Corchuelo & Ester Martínez-Ros, 2017. "Participation inertia in R&D tax incentive and subsidy programs," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 48(1), pages 153-177, January.
    3. Peter Goodridge & Jonathan Haskel & Gavin Wallis, 2018. "Accounting for the UK Productivity Puzzle: A Decomposition and Predictions," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 85(339), pages 581-605, July.
    4. Chang, Kai & Wan, Qiong & Lou, Qichun & Chen, Yili & Wang, Weihong, 2020. "Green fiscal policy and firms’ investment efficiency: New insights into firm-level panel data from the renewable energy industry in China," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 151(C), pages 589-597.
    5. P Sivashankar & RMPS Rathnayake & Maneka Jayasinghe & Christine Smith, 2017. "Incidence of value added taxation on inequality: Evidence from Sri Lanka," Discussion Papers in Economics economics:201704, Griffith University, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics.

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