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Taxation and Savings - A Neoclassical Perspective

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 1984

, marginal and intra-marginal taxation, and the level of government consumption. Conventional accounting measures of "taxes …

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National Savings, Economic Welfare, and the Structure of Taxation

Auerbach, Alan J. - 1981

This paper develops a perfect foresight general equilibrium simulation model of life cycle savings that may be used to investigate the potential impact of a wide range of government policies on national savings and economic welfare. The model can provide quantitative answers to a number of...

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Comparing Average and Marginal Tax Rates Under the FairTax and the Current System of Federal Taxation

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2005

income, corporate income, payroll, and estate and gift taxes with a 23 percent effective retail sales tax plus a progressive … rebate. The 23 percent rate generates more revenue than the taxes it replaces, but the rebate's cost necessitates scaling … here, current effective marginal labor taxes are higher or much higher than 23 percent. Take our stylized 45 year …

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Tax Aspects of Policy Towards Aging Populations : Canada and the United States

Auerbach, Alan J. - 1990

In comparing Canada with the U.S., we first simulate the U.S. demographic transition, treating the U.S. as a closed economy. The time path of interest rates obtained from the U.S. simulations are then used in the Canadian simulations. In the Canada simulations, Canada is assumed to be an open...

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From Deficit Delusion to the Fiscal Balance Rule : Looking For an Economically Meaningful Way to Assess Fiscal Policy

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 1989

Notwithstanding its widespread use as a measure of fiscal policy, the government deficit is not a well-defined concept from the perspective of neoclassical macro economics. From the neoclassical perspective the deficit is an arbitrary accounting construct whose value depends on how the...

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