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The Choice of the Personal Income Tax Base
Gordon, Roger H. - 2014
each individual in addition to earnings, in a setting where the first-best tax would be an ability tax. The theory lays out …
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The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Intertemporal Income Shifting
Gorry, Aspen - 2018
Knowing the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is crucial for understanding the effects of taxation on taxpayer behavior and consequently on tax revenues. Previous research finds that high-income individuals are the most sensitive to tax policy changes. However, these individuals have more...
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Accuracy, Complexity, and the Income Tax
Kaplow, Louis - 2021
The complexity of the income tax is an unending source of complaint. Compliance costs have received increasing attention and are estimated to be large. Yet most recognize that some degree of complexity is necessary if ability to pay is to be measured accurately. This article presents a framework...
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Efficient Subsidization of Human Capital Accumulation with Overlapping Generations and Endogenous Growth
Richter, Wolfram F. - 2010
This paper studies second-best policies in an OLG model in which endogenous growth results from human capital accumulation. When young, individuals decide on education, saving, and nonqualified labour. When old, individuals supply qualified labour. Growth equilibria are inefficient in...
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Employment Structure and the Rise of the Modern Tax System
Jensen, Anders - 2019
This paper studies how the transition from self-employment to employee-jobs over the long run of development explains growth in income tax capacity. I construct a new database which covers 100 household surveys across countries at different income levels and 140 years of historical data within...
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The Taxation of Superstars
Scheuer, Florian - 2015
How are optimal taxes affected by the presence of superstar phenomena at the top of the earnings distribution? To answer this question, we extend the Mirrlees model to incorporate an assignment problem in the labor market that generates superstar effects. Perhaps surprisingly, rather than...
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Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments
Findeisen, Sebastian - 2015
We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We … independent of the social welfare function and determined by the degree of income risk and risk aversion. The optimal linear … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results …
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Notes on Optimal Wage Taxation and Uncertainty
Eaton, Jonathan; Rosen, Harvey S. - 2022
Most contributions to optimal tax theory have assumed that all prices, including that of leisure, are known with … paper begins with a discussion of the positive theory of wage taxation and labor supply under uncertainty. This is followed …
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Consumption Insurance Against Wage Risk : Family Labor Supply and Optimal Progressive Income Taxation
Wu, Chunzan; Krueger, Dirk - 2022
-household income insurance mechanism strongly biases upward the welfare losses from idiosyncratic wage risk as well as the desired …
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Cross-Border Tax Externalities : Are Budget Deficits Too Small?
Buiter, Willem H.; Sibert, Anne - 2021
In a dynamic optimising model with costly tax collection, a tax cut by one nation creates positive externalities for the rest of the world if initial public debt stocks are positive. By reducing tax collection costs, current tax cuts boost the resources available for current private consumption,...
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