Journal article
THE EFFECT OF INSURANCE PREMIUM TAXES ON INTERSTATE DIFFERENCES IN THE SIZE OF THE PROPERTY-CASUALTY INSURANCE INDUSTRY
National tax journal, Vol.67(1), pp.151-181
03/01/2014
DOI: 10.17310/ntj.2014.1.05
Abstract
States levy insurance premium taxes, which are essentially gross receipt taxes on premiums, with insurers paying the higher of the tax rate in the state in which the company is domiciled and the state in which the policy is written. Using a state-level panel data set from 1996-2010 for the property-casualty insurance industry, the paper explores the effect of insurance premium tax rates on interstate differences in property-casualty insurance industry employment and other measures of industry size. While the estimated elasticities of industry size with respect to the tax rate differ across models, the results indicate that the insurance premium tax has a large, negative, and economically significant effect on the size of the insurance industry in a state.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- THE EFFECT OF INSURANCE PREMIUM TAXES ON INTERSTATE DIFFERENCES IN THE SIZE OF THE PROPERTY-CASUALTY INSURANCE INDUSTRY
- Creators
- Martin F. Grace - Georgia State UniversityDavid L. Sjoquist - Georgia State UniversityLaura Wheeler - Georgia State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- National tax journal, Vol.67(1), pp.151-181
- Publisher
- Natl Tax Assoc
- DOI
- 10.17310/ntj.2014.1.05
- ISSN
- 0028-0283
- eISSN
- 1944-7477
- Number of pages
- 31
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2014
- Academic Unit
- Finance
- Record Identifier
- 9984700652302771
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