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varied across households and over time. We next provide estimates of tax progressivity using two approaches: one based on tax …
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For more than 25 years, the Social Security Trust Fund has been projected to run out of money in 2033 (give or take a few years), potentially causing benefits to be severely reduced in the absence of corrective legislative action. Today (February 2024), projections are made by the Social...
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This paper studies the effects of income taxation on entrepreneurship, empirically and in a structural macro model with … taxation has a strong negative impact on entrepreneurial activity across time and space. A one percentage point increase in the … explain this relationship and to evaluate the impact of taxation on output and welfare, we develop a life-cycle, incomplete …
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We study the link between tax progressivity and top income shares. Using variation from large-scale Western tax reforms in the 1980s and 1990s and the novel synthetic control method, we find large and lasting boosting impacts on top income shares from the progressivity reductions. Effects are...
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earnings that features progressive taxation, public education expenditure, and borrowing constraints among the determinants of … intergenerational earnings persistence in the United States. Taxation, through its impact on investments in human capital, can explain …
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The distributional impacts of fiscal policies are instrumental in reducing inequality in countries like the Philippines, where inequality has been persistently high. This paper assesses how equitable various taxes and transfers in the Philippines are by deriving the elasticities of Atkinson and...
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We study income responses to income tax changes by using a large panel of Swedish tax payers over the period 1991-2002. Changes in statutory tax rates as well as dis-cretionary changes in tax bracket thresholds provide exogenous variations in tax rates that can be used to identify income...
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This study aims at contributing to the ongoing debates on the bracket creep, whether Germany needs an integration of inflation indexation into its personal income tax system in order to re-duce distortions of tax liabilities and additional tax burdens. On the other hand, Germany has continuously...
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As taxpayers typically pay relatively low attention to a small inflation-induced bracket creep of the income tax, policy-makers tend to postpone its correction into the future. However, the fiscal illusion fades away and political pressure for a tax relief arises since after some years, the...
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