How Do Business Owners Respond to a Tax Cut? Examining the 199A Deduction for Pass-through Firms
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- Goodman, Lucas & Lim, Katherine & Sacerdote, Bruce & Whitten, Andrew, 2025. "How do business owners respond to a tax cut? Examining the 199A deduction for pass-through firms," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 242(C).
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- H0 - Public Economics - - General
- H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
- H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
- H3 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents
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