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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2024
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
CFS Working Paper Series No. 724
Verlag: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Financial Studies (CFS), Frankfurt a. M.
Zusammenfassung: 
We use novel transaction-level card expenditure data to estimate the effect of the temporary value-added tax (VAT) cut in Germany 2020. We find that the annualized growth rate of expenditures for durables increased by 6 percentage points (pp) during the tax cut, with a particularly strong increase of up to 11 pp for consumer electronics. The expenditure growth rate for semi-durables and non-durables did not change by and large. The estimates imply a consumption multiplier of 0.2 and an elasticity of fiscal revenues to a VAT rate reduction of two thirds.
Schlagwörter: 
Consumption expenditure
Transactional data
Temporary VAT cut
Unconventional fiscal policy
JEL: 
D12
E21
E62
E65
H31
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