TAX INCIDENCE IN A VERTICAL SUPPLY CHAIN: EVIDENCE FROM CIGARETTE WHOLESALE PRICES

被引:11
作者
Rozema, Kyle [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Chicago, Law Sch, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
关键词
tax incidence; consumption taxes; supply chain; ROBINSON-PATMAN ACT; PASS-THROUGH; EXCISE TAXES; INTEGRATION; INFERENCE; PROGRAMS; TAXATION; STATE;
D O I
10.17310/ntj.2018.3.01
中图分类号
F8 [财政、金融];
学科分类号
0202 ;
摘要
I investigate how the burden of consumption taxes not borne by consumers is shared between upstream firms that produce a taxed good and downstream firms that sell the goods. Using novel data on monthly brand-level cigarette wholesale prices and retail prices from Nielsen Homescan data, 1 find that taxes are passed through to wholesale and retail prices at rates of 0.80 and 0.72. The results suggest that downstream firms selling cigarettes bear no more than one-third of the firm share of the tax burden.
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页码:427 / 450
页数:24
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