The potential economic impacts of alternative state taxes on different size Texas farms /
abolition of agricultural sales tax exemptions would have on
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | abolition of agricultural sales tax exemptions would have on activity tax. If the baseline tax scenario were not an adverse tax strategy for all of the seven farms, doubling agricultural commodities (beef cattle, cotton, feed grains, As school property tax rates rise to meet the increasing baseline, and the three tax alternatives from the staff work business activity tax, a business gross receipts tax, and the costs of education, so do lawmaker's concerns that this density function for the net present value of each farm to be determine which tax strategy a risk-averse decision maker elected officials to examine possible alternatives to the farms were simulated under four different scenarios (a five of the seven representative farms, while the two fanns group report) for I 00 iterations over a seven-year planning horizon. FLIPSIM results generated an empirical probability indicated that the baseline tax scenario was preferred by option, all of the farrns would prefer the business activity representative farms producing five of the state's chief rice, and dairy) in different regions of the state. The school property tax. The group suggested three alternatives. simulation model (FLIPSIM) was used to simulate seven staff work group was formed by the Governor and other state stagnant tax base may need to be replaced by a more dynamic tax alternative. Prior to the Seventy-Fifth Legislature, a tax. The sales tax strategy was the most economically the economic viability of Texas farms. A whole farm computer This thesis investigates the individual impacts that a used by STODOM, a stochastic dominance computer program, to with the lowest net cash farm income preferred the business would prefer for each representative farm. The results |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Agricultural Economics". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 87 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references: pages 83-86. |