Journal article
The Effect of Taxes on the Location of Property-Casualty Insurance Firms
The Journal of risk and insurance, Vol.87(4), pp.1035-1062
12/01/2020
DOI: 10.1111/jori.12298
Abstract
States levy insurance premium taxes, which are essentially gross receipt taxes on premiums. An unusual characteristic of insurance premium taxes is that in each state in which an insurance company writes premiums, the firm pays the higher of the tax rate in the state in which the company is domiciled and the state in which the policy is written. Thus, the choice of location has a significant effect on the firm's tax liability. Using firm-level data for the property-casualty (P-C) insurance industry, we calculate the firm-specific tax rate for each P-C firm for every possible state of domicile. We estimate conditional logistic models to analyze the effect of insurance premium taxes on the choice of the state of domicile of existing and relocated firms. We find robust evidence of a small, negative, and statistically significant effect of these taxes on the choice of the state of domicile.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Effect of Taxes on the Location of Property-Casualty Insurance Firms
- Creators
- Martin F. Grace - Temple UniversityDavid L. Sjoquist - Georgia State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of risk and insurance, Vol.87(4), pp.1035-1062
- Publisher
- Wiley
- DOI
- 10.1111/jori.12298
- ISSN
- 0022-4367
- eISSN
- 1539-6975
- Number of pages
- 28
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2020
- Academic Unit
- Finance
- Record Identifier
- 9984701253602771
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