Tax Revenue and Economic Growth in Developing Country: an Autoregressive Distribution Lags Approach

• Autorzy: Mnaku Honest Maganya
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Tanzania, like most other developing countries, faces numerous economic challenges in striving to achieve sustainable economic growth and development through taxation. In the literature, the debate on how effective taxes are as a tool for promoting economic growth and economic development remains inconclusive, as various research have reported mixed effects of tax on economic growth. This article investigates the effect of taxation on economic growth in Tanzania using the recently developed technique of autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL) bounds testing procedure for the period from 1996 to 2019. Various preliminary tests were conducted including stationary tests as well as the pair-wise Granger causality test. According to the results obtained, domestic goods and services (TGS) taxes are positively related to GDP growth and are statistically significant at 1% level. Income taxes, on the other hand, were found to be negatively related to GDP growth and to be statistically significant at 5% level. The pair-wise Granger causality results indicated that there is bidirectional Granger causality between TGS and GDP growth at 1 % significance level. The government should aim at growing, nurturing and sustaining tax base to positively drive economic growth even further. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Taxation; Economic growth; ACD model (Autoregressive conditional duration)

PL

Opodatkowanie; Wzrost gospodarczy; Model ACD (Autoregresyjna duracja warunkowa)

• Czasopismo: Ekonomia / Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Rocznik: 2020
• Tom: 7
• Numer: nr 54
• Strony: 205--217

Twórcy

autor

Mnaku Honest Maganya

• Institute of Finance Management (IFM), Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences, Department of Economics and Tax Management, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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Identyfikatory

DOI

10.2478/ceej-2020-0018