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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Taxes

News                                                                                                                             
Politico | Bob Goodlatte to deliver online sales tax plan
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte is expected to release a series of principles on Wednesday, outlining concerns and priorities for a bill that would allow online retailers to collect sales tax.

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
NBER | Do the Laws of Tax Incidence Hold? Point of Collection and the Pass-through of State Diesel Taxes
In this paper, we estimate in the context of state diesel fuel taxes how the incidence of a quantity tax depends on the point of tax collection, where the level of the supply chain responsible for remitting the tax varies across states and over time.