This paper encompasses multiple sources of inefficiency into a single general equilibrium model of the U.S. tax system. The authors measure interasset distortions using disaggregate calculations of user cost, and intersectoral distortions from the differential treatment of the corporate sector,...

This study provides new insights into the effects of the corporate income tax by introducing a general-equi librium model in which households choose portfolios composed of housi ng and nonhousing assets, industries make investment decisions based on Hall-Jorgenson cost-of-capital formulas, and...

Others have measured the addition to deadweight loss from an increase in an effective capital income tax rate, but there is no single way to raise such a rate. In the authors' general equilibrium model with multiple distortions in the allocation of real resources, they find that an increase in...

Recent proposals for fundamental tax reform differ in their relative emphasis on interasset, intersectoral, interindustry, and intertemporal distortions. The model in this paper addresses these multiple issues in the design of taxes on capital incomes. It is capable of measuring the net effects...

This paper encompasses multiple sources of inefficiency introduced by the U.S. tax system into a single general equilibrium model. Using disaggregate calculations of user cost, we measure interasset distortions from the differential taxation of many types of assets. Simultaneously, we model the...

Marginal excess burden, defined as the change in deadweight loss for an additional dollar of tax revenue, has been measured for labor taxes, output taxes, and capital taxes generally. This paper points out that there is no we1 1-defined way to raise capital taxes in general, because the taxation...