Fiscal Incentives and Firm Performance : Evidence from the Dominican Republic
This paper evaluates the impact of fiscal incentives on firm performance in the Dominican Republic. In recent years, the Dominican government has approved several new corporate tax benefits. While the literature on value-added tax incentives is ext...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/491141522157296676/Fiscal-incentives-and-firm-performance-evidence-from-the-Dominican-Republic http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29562 |
| Summary: | This paper evaluates the impact of
fiscal incentives on firm performance in the Dominican
Republic. In recent years, the Dominican government has
approved several new corporate tax benefits. While the
literature on value-added tax incentives is extensive, the
impact of corporate tax incentives is less well studied and
is the subject of an ongoing debate. Using firm-level panel
data from 2006 to 2015, this analysis uses fixed- and
random-effects models to examine the relationship between
corporate tax incentives and selected firm-level performance
indicators. The results reveal that corporate income tax
exemptions positively impact the performance of individual
firms in the Dominican Republic, but uneven tax treatment
across firms distorts competition in the industrial sector,
with negative effects on overall economic productivity. |
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