Yeganeh Mousavi Jahromi; Mohammad Reza Razavi; Farhad Khodadad Kashi; Seied Hossien Eizadi
Volume 7, Issue 28 , September 2017, , Pages 33-50
Abstract
Iran’s tax system includes many forms of tax incentives, like as regionally targeted tax incentives. According to direct tax act, article 132, that includes this kind of incentive, declared taxable income of manufacturing and mining activities in less developed regions are totally (100%) exempt ...
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Iran’s tax system includes many forms of tax incentives, like as regionally targeted tax incentives. According to direct tax act, article 132, that includes this kind of incentive, declared taxable income of manufacturing and mining activities in less developed regions are totally (100%) exempt from corporate income tax for ten years. The aim of this study is to estimate the impact of tax exemptions of article 132 on employment of Iran’s less developed counties for the period from 1996 to 2008. In the present paper, a two- stage method is used. In the first stage, a proper control group is selected for each treated county by using Synthetic Control Method (SCM) and Genetic algorithm, and the impact of tax incentives article 132 on employment in Iran’s less developed regions is estimated via Difference in Difference (DID) Method, in the second stage. Results indicate that tax exemptions in mentioned Article have no impact on employment of Iran’s less developed counties.
