Positive Analysis on the Stability of Local Tax

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530352
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Public finance/Monetary economics
• Research Institution: The University of Tokushima
• Principal Investigator: ISHIDA Kazuyuki 徳島大学, 大学院ソシオ・アーツ・アンド・サイエンス研究部, 准教授 (30318844)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 地方税 / 税収の安定性 / 住民税 / 固定資産税 / 日本

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study dealt with the stability of Japanese local taxes and showed the following results. First, this study estimated the stability and growth of local tax revenues by short-term and long-term income elasticities, respectively. The estimated results suggested that the local corporate taxes have low stability of their revenues, the property tax has high stability of the revenues and high growth of the revenues. Second, this study estimated relationships between the stability and growth of the local tax revenues using a coefficient of correlation and showed that the trade offs between them exists in the local taxes. Third, this studs estimated a influence from national taxes to local taxes by Granger causal relation test and showed that the national income tax system has an impact on the local income tax revenues.

Free Research Field

財政学