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realization-based capital gain taxation. For realistic parameterizations of our model, certainty equivalent welfare gains from … heuristic portfolio policy ignoring the taxation of profits (capital gains, interest and dividend payments). Compared to a … heuristic portfolio policy that only ignores the realization-based feature of capital gain taxation and instead assumes mark …
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This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the … relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities …—and the mapping between these functions and various forms of taxation. Different types of taxation as well as expenditures on …
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lower than the average American. Is this due to a lack of public support for taxation? Is it due to misperceptions about … treatments would positively affect the demand for taxation, most treatments have a null or negative effect. Providing information … about the lavish lifestyles of billionaires does have a robust positive effect on the demand for taxation …
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Die Due Diligence bezeichnet die gebotene Sorgfalt, mit der beim Kauf bzw. Verkauf von Gesellschaften, Betrieben, Immobilien oder bei einem Börsengang das Zielobjekt im Vorfeld der Akquisition überprüft wird. Steuerliche Fragestellungen stellen dabei einen entscheidenden Faktor dar, der im...
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Mit wachsender Bedeutung der Finanzmärkte hat sich auch das Konzept der wertorientierten Unternehmensführung immer stärker im Bereich der Realwirtschaft ausgebreitet. Die starke Stellung der Eigenkapitalgeber mit ihren Renditeansprüchen hat insbesondere den international agierenden...
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A worker can contribute pre-tax dollars to a private pension plan. Under a progressive tax, this feature reduces income taxes. Ippolito (1986} argues that an individual in 1979 can reduce lifetime taxes by 20%. We re-examine his analysis using the complete time-series of US income tax history...
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Taxes have a first-order effect on investors' trading decisions and portfolio choices and on the equilibrium pricing of assets. In this review, we investigate how certain features of the tax code impact investors and asset markets. We begin by considering how tax heterogeneity across investors...
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We build a life-cycle model with earnings risk, liquidity constraints, and portfolio choice over tax-deferred and taxable assets to evaluate how household consumption changes in response to shocks to transitory anticipated income, such as the 2001 income tax rebate. Households optimally invest...
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We study the dynamic consumption-portfolio problem over the life cycle, with respect to tax-deferred investing for investors who acquire housing services by either renting or owning a home. The joint existence of these two investment vehicles creates potential for tax arbitrage. Specifically,...
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Evidence that high tax rates significantly depress capital gains realizations is inconsistent with the implications of neoclassical investment models in unchanging economic environments. Higher tax rates reduce after-tax investment returns, thereby encouraging investors to sell capital assets...
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