Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/142552 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
EERI Research Paper Series No. 20/2009
Publisher: 
Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI), Brussels
Abstract: 
This paper provides estimates of the extent to which corporate and personal income taxes are capitalized in bond prices. The methodology yields estimates of the degree of tax capitalization, rather than an implied tax rate. This makes it straightforward to identify the marginal investor and test for changes in tax capitalization. The empirical approach also makes it unnecessary to jointly estimate the degree of tax capitalization and the entire yield curve. Corporate taxes are found to have been fully capitalized in pre-tax Government of Canada bond yields during the period 1986-1993. Since 1994, taxes have not been capitalized in yields. These results are consistent with the existence of a marginal investor, but the identity of the marginal investor changed from a financial sector firm to a non-taxed entity in the early 1990s.
Subjects: 
Tax capitalization
Bond yields
JEL: 
G12
H2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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