The Effect of Marginal Tax Rates on Taxable Income: A Panel Study of the 1986 Tax Reform Act.
This paper uses a Treasury Department panel of more than 4,000 taxpayers to estimate the sensitivity of taxable income to changes in tax rates based on a comparison of the tax returns of the same individual taxpayers before and after the 1986 tax reform. The analysis emphasizes that the response of taxable income involves much more than a change in the traditional measures of labor supply. The evidence shows an elasticity of taxable income with respect to the marginal net-of-tax rate that is at least one and that could be substantially higher. The implications for recent tax rate changes are discussed. Copyright 1995 by University of Chicago Press.
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1995
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Authors: | Feldstein, Martin |
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Journal of Political Economy. - University of Chicago Press. - Vol. 103.1995, 3, p. 551-72
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