01907cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF004924 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451869187 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Klemm, Alexander. Effective Average Tax Rates for Permanent Investment / Alexander Klemm. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008. 1 online resource (16 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper extends the effective average tax rate (EATR) developed in Devereux and Griffith (2003) by relaxing the assumption of a one-period perturbation in the capital stock. Instead it allows a permanent investment. While this may appear a small change, it has important implications. First, it allows the EATR to be calculated in the presence of tax holidays, which are an important part of tax systems, especially in developing countries. Second, it reveals an interesting feature of the original EATR: despite the assumption of a one-period investment, the original measure is informative about long-term investments, thanks to the assumption of pooled depreciation. Without this assumption-which is justifiable in a few countries only- the EATR based on one-period perturbation in the capital stock would be less useful for analyzing medium and long-term investments. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/056 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2008/056/001.2008.issue-056-en.xml IMF e-Library