Incentive effects of bonus depreciation

David S. Hulse; Jane R. Livingstone

doi:10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2010.06.008

Incentive effects of bonus depreciation

David S. Hulse, Jane R. Livingstone

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Abstract

This study examines the effect on capital expenditures of " bonus depreciation," which was intended to stimulate such spending by allowing businesses to immediately expense a portion of the cost of qualified capital expenditures from late 2001 through 2004. After controlling for many previously documented determinants of capital expenditures, some of our results indicate that capital expenditures during bonus depreciation's availability were greater than those during the time it was not available, consistent with the expected effect. However, other results indicate that bonus depreciation had an insignificant effect on capital expenditures. These mixed findings generally persist through several sensitivity analyses. We interpret these results as weakly supportive evidence that Congress attained its goal of stimulating capital spending.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	578-603
Number of pages	26
Journal	Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
Volume	29
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2010.06.008
State	Published - Nov 2010

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We thank the editors, two anonymous reviewers, and the workshop participants at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, East Carolina University, Saint Louis University, the University of Kentucky, and a National Tax Association annual conference, as well as Dennis Chambers and Chris Bollinger for their helpful comments and advice. We also thank John Graham for providing us with his simulated marginal tax rates. Hulse acknowledges support from the Von Allmen Research Support Endowment and the Deloitte Professorship Endowment.

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We thank the editors, two anonymous reviewers, and the workshop participants at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, East Carolina University, Saint Louis University, the University of Kentucky, and a National Tax Association annual conference, as well as Dennis Chambers and Chris Bollinger for their helpful comments and advice. We also thank John Graham for providing us with his simulated marginal tax rates. Hulse acknowledges support from the Von Allmen Research Support Endowment and the Deloitte Professorship Endowment.

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