Could Replacement of Business Tax with VAT Improve Total Factor Productivity
Empirical Evidence Based on Data Mining and Text Analysis
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- 10.2991/978-94-6463-030-5_128How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Tax Reform; Vat; Tfp; R&D Input; Text Analysis
- Abstract
In response to the call of “Internet + Taxation”, the construction of the Comprehensive VAT Invoice Service Platform has boosted the modernization and informatization of fiscal and taxation management, which played an important role in “the Replacement of Business Tax with Value Added Tax” (RBTVAT) Based on the quasi-natural experimental event of RBTVAT, this paper adopts the text analysis method, using Perl and the “jieba” library in Python to collect and process data, then using the difference-difference model to study the impact of RBTVAT on the total factor productivity (TFP) of Chinese A-share listed companies. The research results show that RBTVAT significantly improves the TFP of enterprises. This paper also confirms that increasing investment in R&D is an impact mechanism of RBTVAT to improve the TFP of enterprises.
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TY - CONF AU - Hao Li AU - Siyuan Hong PY - 2022 DA - 2022/12/20 TI - Could Replacement of Business Tax with VAT Improve Total Factor Productivity BT - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Bigdata Blockchain and Economy Management (ICBBEM 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1287 EP - 1296 SN - 2589-4919 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-030-5_128 DO - 10.2991/978-94-6463-030-5_128 ID - Li2022 ER -