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The Exorbitant Tax Privilege

November 12, 2018 Bilal 0

The Exorbitant Tax Privilege https://ift.tt/2qGh5me The Exorbitant Tax Privilege NBER Working Paper No. 24983 Issued in September 2018 NBER Program(s):Development of the American Economy, International Finance and Macroeconomics, Public Economics We estimate and attempt to explain the evolution of the taxes paid by U.S. multinationals on their foreign profits since 1966. In the oil sector, taxes paid to oil-producing States have been contained, allowing U.S. firms to earn high after-tax returns. Foreign taxes fell abruptly after the first Gulf War. In sectors other than oil, the effective foreign tax rate has fallen by half since the late 1990s. Almost half […]

Do Import Tariffs Help Reduce Trade Deficits?

September 2, 2018 Bilal 0

Do Import Tariffs Help Reduce Trade Deficits? https://ift.tt/2nA1AuN Mary Amiti, Mi Dai, Robert C. Feenstra, and John Romalis Import tariffs are on the rise in the United States, with a long list of new tariffs imposed in the last few months—25 percent on steel imports, 10 percent on aluminum, and 25 percent on $50 billion of goods from China—and possibly more to come. One of the objectives of these new tariffs is to reduce the U.S. trade deficit, which stood at $568.4 billion in 2017 (2.9 percent of GDP). The fact that the United States imports far more than it exports is viewed by some as unfair, […]