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Executors of estates for decedents in 2010 could choose between an estate tax regime and a basis carry-over regime. For most executors, this created a tradeoff between a current estate tax payment and a future capital gains tax liability for beneficiaries who inherited assets with...
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The present paper argues that the correct experiment to evaluate the effects of a fiscal adjustment is the simulation of fiscal plans rather than of individual fiscal shocks. The simulation of the fiscal plans adopted by 16 OECD countries over a 30-year period supports the hypothesis that the...
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Gasoline taxes can be employed to correct externalities from automobile use and to raise government revenue. Our … understanding of the optimal gasoline tax and the efficacy of existing taxes is largely based on empirical analysis of consumer … responses to gasoline price changes. In this paper, we directly examine how gasoline taxes affect gasoline consumption as …
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Deferral of U.S. taxes on foreign source income is commonly characterized as a subsidy to foreign investment, as …
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The incidence of taxes on consumers and producers plays a central role in evaluating energy tax policy, yet the … state gasoline and diesel taxes to retail prices, and importantly we estimate the dependence of pass-through on factors … constrained, and the constraint is plausibly unrelated to shifts in demand, the pass-through rate of fuel taxes declines. We …
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We use the time series of shifts in U.S. Federal tax liabilities constructed by Romer and Romer to estimate tax multipliers. Differently from the single-equation approach adopted by Romer and Romer, our estimation strategy (a Var that includes output, government spending and revenues, inflation...
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This paper analyzes the distortions created by taxation and the features of tax systems that minimize such distortions (subject to achieving other government objectives). It starts with a review of the theory and practice of deadweight loss measurement, followed by characterizations of optimal...
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This paper explores the relationship between household marginal income tax rates, the set of assets that households own, and the portfolio shares accounted for by each of these assets. It analyzes data from the 1983, 1989, 1992, and 1995 Surveys of Consumer Finances and develops a new algorithm...
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countries with whom Japan has agreements are entitled to claim foreign tax credits for income taxes that they would have paid to …
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