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This study investigates whether migrants, once they have decided to move to Switzerland, prefer to settle in municipalities that feature low income taxes. In line with the existing literature, results from cluster-specific count data models indicate that income taxes are a significant pull...
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A recent Spanish tax reform granted regions the authority to set income tax rates, resulting in substantial tax …, taxes have a significant effect on location choice. A one percent increase in the net of tax rate for a region relative to …-taxpayers, we estimate an elasticity of the number of top taxpayers with respect to net-of-tax rates of 0.85. Using this elasticity …
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personal income tax profiles for 49 economies and the year 2002. In particular, we determine the component of labor taxes which …, we calculate the progressivity of personal income tax rates between the average wage and five times the average wage …. This may be interpreted as the tax progression which is relevant for well-paid workers. Then, we use the personal income …
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savings in combination with full tax exemption on capital income. …
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We study the impact of taxation on the location choices of individuals and tax bases in Italy. We exploit some recent … tax decentralization reforms, which granted regions and municipalities greater power in setting income tax rates across … brackets. Combining granular micro-level data on tax residence transfers with tax rate variations both within and across …
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migrants. This paper presents calculations on how a graduate tax system could look for Finland. To protect citizens against …
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significant potential for cutting tax expenditures. Furthermore, eliminating distortions in the tax base would encourage economic …
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wisdom, in general equilibrium, migration lowers the bottom tax rate but raises the top tax rate, making the optimal tax … system more progressive and moving tax rates closer to those in an economy with fixed wages. The intuition is that … governments attract high-skilled workers by amplifying pre-tax wage inequality and partly offsetting trickle-down forces from …
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doctors, and too many lawyers. If the total tax rate is kept constant, then replacing part of existing wage taxes with …
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How do wealthy individuals respond to wealth tax reforms? We analyse behavioral responses to intensive margin variation … in wealth tax rates, estimating the causal effects of an unprecedented municipal wealth tax reform in Norway. We leverage … variation from the single-period municipal reform reducing the marginal tax rate (MTR) on wealth exclusively in the northern …
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