Analysis of the Effect of Combined Subsidies on the Indirect Tax Change in Khorasan Razavi

اقتصاد پولی مالی

Article 6, Volume 22, Issue 10, January 2016   

Document Type: پژوهشی

DOI: 10.22067/pm.v22i10.25534

Authors

taghi ebrahimi salari¹; Seyyd Mahdi Nemati Kheirabadi²

¹Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

²Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Adalat University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Targeted Subsidies is an important and visible part of the economic development plan which leads to a change in the subsidy. Factors such as the expansion and diversification of economic activities, the increasing role of government in the development of public services, social security, the development of government commitments in social and economic fields, efforts towards realizing economic growth, and equitable distribution of income have turned the payment and receipt of taxes to an important and effective tool. Taxation is one of the most important levers in the hands of the government which has a major role in preventing inflation and recession as well as in a fair distribution of wealth in the society.
Methodology
In order to reach the objectives of this study, the following question was raised:
Has the targeted subsidies plan affected the combination of taxes?
The statistical population included informed and clear-sighted people about factors affecting the tax income including experts of the tax organization. Statistical sample consisted of 35 persons and the method of sample selection was random sampling. After collecting questionnaires, data analysis was performed using SPSS software package. Given that the studied variable in this research is measured based on an interval scale, the following relations were used to determine the sample size:





Where, r is the upper bound of the relative error determined previously, N is the size of population, S and are population’s parameters (error coefficient is and confidence coefficient in level of 99% is equal to ). The required sample size for each group of statistical population was obtained as the table below.

Table1: population and sample sizes
Group Population size Parameter estimation from initial sample Final sample size
mean Standard deviation
Taxes on goods and services 82 3.65 0.72 35

The questionnaire queries the effectiveness of various factors on the amount of tax on goods and services.
Validity of questionnaire
Validity means to what extend the provided tool measures the considered specific concept (Secaran, 2001). The questionnaire used in this research has been validated according to theoretical foundations and the opinion of experts, intendants and advisers .
Reliability of the questionnaire
In order to calculate Cronbach alpha, firstly, it is required that the variance of scores of each subset of questions be calculated and then the total variance be determined. Then by replacing them into the following formula the value of the Cronbach alpha will be obtained:

Where, k is the number of subsets of questionnaire or questions of questionnaire; is the variance of kth question and is the total variance.
Thus, Cronbach alpha reflects the amount of positive correlation of the members of a set with each other.




Table2: Cronbach alpha coefficient
Row Questionnaire Cronbach alpha coefficient

1 Taxes on goods and services 0.840

Results and discussion
In checking his hypothesis, in order to get familiar with the manner of answers provided to the questionnaire and the significance test of each of them, firstly using frequency tables, we checked the answers. Then using t-student significance test, we checked the mean of answers so that a clear result was obtained about the view of respondents on each question.
Table3. reports the results of evaluating frequency percentage of provided answers to independent variable questions (Taxes on goods and services)
(%)
row Factor Increase so much increase Do not change decrease Decrease so much
1 Decreased export 0 20 48.6 28.6 2.9
2 Increased import 25.7 42.9 14.3 17.1 0
3 Decreased production (decreased economic growth) 2.9 77.1 0 17.1 2.9
4 Increased prices general level 2.9 77.1 0 1.71 2.9
5 budget deficit (increased government debit, more money issue for supplying government’s expenditure) 2.9 76.5 14.7 5.9 0
*See the rest of the table to text

As observed in the questionnaire, the scores given to each item of the questionnaire are as follow: highly reduces (1), reduces (2), does not change (3), increases (4), highly increases(5). Basically, the value of 3 is considered as the comparison criterion and test of mean comparison. The result of this test is reported in table (4) bellow.
Now, after t-student test and understanding the relationship between research variables, we draw path analysis diagrams to understand the direct and indirect effects of dependent and independent variables. Path analysis of variables studied in this research question can be seen in Graph 1 below.


Graph 1: Path analysis of research variables (Taxes on goods and services)

Conclusion
Totally, in the analysis of trends and the share of proceeds of direct and indirect taxes, it is important that before and after the implementation of the plan, no evident and significant change is observed in the trend of components and the total collected direct tax. In other words, the policy of targeted subsidies, at least in the short term, has had no significant effect on the amount of tax on goods and services proceeds.

Keywords

target orientation; subsidies; taxes; Input - output table

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