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B3 National GDP growth (%): the Dominican Republic vs. regional
competitors, 1995–2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
B4 Tourism Investment growth (%): the Dominican Republic vs.
regional competitors, 1995–2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
B5 Tourism investment share in the region (%): the Dominican
Republic vs. regional competitors, 1995–2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
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Tax incentives worldwide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Appendix: A Simplified Numerical Illustration (for
a Single
Accounting Period and with a National Annual Wage Rate = 2) . 112
1 Tourist companies in the Dominican Republic: with and without
TIPT, 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
2 Tourism investment: relative share of TIPT firms vs. non-TIPT
firms
131
3 Benefit of TIPT:
investment,
GDP and tax revenue, 2002–2015 . . 136
4 Direct cost of TIPT: revenue loss,
its multiplier effect and
“induced” revenue loss, 2002–2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
5 Efficiency loss: investment, GDP and tax revenue, 2001–2015. . . . 141
6 Tourism tax expenditure as share of government capital
expenditure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
7 Opportunity cost of TIPT, an illustration
with infrastructure
investment, 2002–2015. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
8 TIPT-associated cost and benefit: a summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
A Statutory Tax provisions for tourism: the Dominican Republic
and its regional competitors, 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
C1 Initial sample 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
C2 Sample 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
C3 Final sample. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
F Multipliers used in this methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173