Tax on Production & Imports

Hello Bruce, The Taxes on Production and Imports includes the following taxes: sales, real estate property commercial and residential, motor vehicle, severance\resource taxes, business license and stamp taxes, fines, park fees and donated funds and permits, excise and gross receipts taxes as well. Please let us know if you have any additional questions.

The category is tax on Production and Imports. If this has nothing to do with imported factors of production or inventories (as suggested by the moderator's response) it seems to be a very misleading title for a category - or does it? I am interested in doing some import substitution analyses. Where do I go to find or what do I do to 'accurately' impute imports? Thank you.

Hello Joel, The whole title is "Taxes on production and imports net of government subsidies" and it is taken directly from the BEA's label. We agree that it is a very poor indicator of imports to the industry. The Explore> Social Accounts> Social Account Reports Tab with the View By: Commodity Trade tab will show you the values of imports for each commodity in the region. As regards modeling import substitution, you can look at the value of imports to the region for a given commodity and model that as an Industry Change Activity with the Industry Sales value set to the value of imported production you would like to examine. This will allow you to determine the impact of providing that increased production locally. Please let us know if you have any additional questions. IMPLAN Support Team