highly public lives, with some achieving superstar status. Despite growing inequality, billionaires face effective tax rates …

The share of pre-tax income flowing to the top of the UK income distribution increased continually and substantially in … tax records, we describe the nature of top incomes in the UK and how they are taxed. We show that wage income is the … dominant source of pre-tax income, even for highest-income 0.1% of UK adults. But, 'active' business income - derived from self …

government growing over time. In particular, largely due to generous government transfers, the COVID recession has been the first …

growth derived from the universe of tax filers and W-2 recipients that we observe over a two-decade period (1998-2019). We … find that income inequality and income growth patterns identified from administrative tax records differ in important ways … women fell behind earnings for White men following the Great Recession. This trend lasted through 2019, the end of the data …

decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter …, welfare outcomes are better than those under alternative budget rules and in scenarios without rules, making it explicit that … the type of budget rule matters for both welfare and equity …

effects at all. In addition, changes in tax policy since 1950 have led to decreasing progressivity in the overall tax …