Research Article

Tax Arrangement and Regional Industrial Restructuring: Evidence from Panel Data in China

Table 5

Empirical analysis of influence of tax arrangements to IDH.

PathVariableslidh
Model IModel IIModel IIIModel IVModel VModel VI

Macrotaxlmtb20.438
(6.81)
0.393
(5.76)
0.364
(6.27)
0.323
(5.30)
0.371
(4.73)
0.375
(6.33)
lmtb1.873
(7.22)
1.632
(6.17)
1.570
(7.12)
1.381
(5.73)
1.588
(5.28)
1.596
(7.12)

Turnover taxlvat20.013 
(0.93)
0.004 
(0.29)
lvat−0.487 
(−1.35)
−0.250 
(−0.64)
lbt20.012 
(0.91)
0.003 
(0.15)
lbt−0.249 
(−0.70)
−0.097 
(−0.21)

Income taxlcit20.013
(3.42)
0.015 
(1.60)
lcit−0.383
(−3.61)
−0.331 
(−1.43)
liit20.018
(3.39)
0.021 
(1.32)
liit−0.432
(−3.27)
−0.470 
(−1.30)

Resource taxlrt−0.006 
(−0.31)
−0.038
(−2.41)
−0.023 
(−1.15)

Property tax0.009 
(0.86)
−0.513 
(−1.57)
0.007 
(0.73)
−0.062 
(−0.21)

Control variablesltp0.037 
(1.42)
0.028 
(1.07)
0.030 
(1.19)
lcs−0.010 
(−0.23)
−0.007 
(−0.16)
−0.015 
(−0.32)
lis0.102
(1.95)
0.096
(1.85)
0.076 
(1.36)

Regional differencesD0.083 
(0.98)
0.018 
(0.21)
0.118
(1.78)
0.118 
(1.60)
0.052 
(0.59)
0.077 
(1.34)

ConstantC4.707
(6.21)
4.544
(5.49)
6.915
(5.39)
5.780
(3.81)
5.248
(3.33)
6.462
(4.87)

Within0.20920.20390.22320.23220.21020.2380
Between0.60920.61980.70340.68340.65040.7597
Overall0.55300.56080.63900.62310.58370.6910

, , and indicate statistical significance at the 1%, 5%, and 10% significance level, respectively. The -statistics are given in parenthesis, is a measure of goodness of fit in model regression, -within is the from the mean-deviated regression, and -between is the square of correlation between and , and -overall is the square of correlation between and .