Lefebvre, Marie-Noëlle; Lehmann, Etienne; Sicsic, Michaël - 2022
We theoretically express the Laffer tax rate on capital income as a function of the elasticities of capital income (the … "direct" elasticity) and of labor income (the "cross" elasticity) with respect to the net-of-tax rate on capital income. We … rate on capital income to around 57%, taking only income tax on labor income into account, and down to 35% when we also …