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The impact of tax changes on the short-run investment behaviour of New Zealand firms

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  • Fabling, Arthur
  • Kneller, Richard
  • Sanderson, Lynda

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This paper examines firm-level investment responses to exogenous changes in the forwardlooking user cost of capital associated with reforms to the corporate and personal tax system over the last decade. Adjustments to personal tax rates and fiscal depreciation allowances provide a direct lever through which government policy can affect the cost of capital faced by firms. The effect of these tax adjustments differs across firms according to their asset structure, providing both inter-temporal and inter-firm variation in UCCs and enabling an assessment of the short-run impact of UCC changes on investment behaviour. This analysis shows that while tax-induced changes in the UCC have significantly affected investment behaviour among some firms, the aggregate impacts are likely to have been negligible as the industries in which investment impacts are observed make a very small contribution to aggregate investment.

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  • Fabling, Arthur & Kneller, Richard & Sanderson, Lynda, 2015. "The impact of tax changes on the short-run investment behaviour of New Zealand firms," Motu Working Papers 290596, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:motuwp:290596
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.290596
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    2. Richard Fabling, 2021. "Of interest? Estimating the average interest rate on debt across firms and over time," Motu Working Papers 21_05, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research.
    3. Nolan, Gulnara & Nolan, Matt, 2021. "Taxation, user cost of capital and investment behaviour of New Zealand firms," Working Paper Series 21108, Victoria University of Wellington, Chair in Public Finance.
    4. Nolan, Gulnara & Nolan, Matt, 2021. "Taxation, user cost of capital and investment behaviour of New Zealand firms," Working Paper Series 9461, Victoria University of Wellington, Chair in Public Finance.

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    • D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
    • H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General

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