Health care costs in the United States have increased significantly over the past few decades. As a result, the current trends of federal health care spending are unsustainable. Section 106 of the I.R.C. contributes to the nation's increasingly large federal health care bill because it excludes...

In 2010, President Obama signed legislation that significantly altered the healthcare and health insurance markets in the United States. An integral part of that reform is the individual mandate, a provision that requires individuals to purchase and maintain healthcare insurance. Failure to...

Delayed Integration ("DI") is a rule for taxing migrants. It requires that immigrants be taxed in the receiving country only after some period of transition. Conversely, emigrants are released from the obligation to pay home taxes only after a certain period. DI is an alternative to the...

This paper exploits the tax rate variation generated by the Economic Growth and Tax Reconciliation Act of 2001 (which reduced ordinary income tax rates) and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (which reduced capital gains and dividend tax rates) to estimate the effect of...

We estimate the growth and utility effects of switching from a graduated-rate federal income tax to a flat tax along the lines of Hall-Rabushka (1995). We, furthermore, calculate the post-reform transition dynamics for a number of variables, including the economic growth rate, the representative...

Objective – The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of tax inspections of compliance in the corporate taxpayers pay income tax in particular article 25 of income tax on Tax Office (KPP) Pratama Pekanbaru Tampan.Methodology/Technique – The object of this study is the taxpayers...

This paper provides an analysis of how the New Zealand tax system may be affecting residential property markets. Like most OECD countries, New Zealand does not tax the imputed rent or capital gains from owner-occupied housing. Unlike most OECD countries, since 1989 New Zealand has taxed income...

The desirability of inheritance and gift taxes depends on individuals' tax responsiveness. This paper demonstrates how strongly, and in what way, the German inheritance and gift tax influences taxpayer behavior. To that end, it combines administrative data with cross-bracket tax variation: a...

The desirability of inheritance and gift taxes depends on individuals’ tax responsiveness. This paper demonstrates how strongly, and in what way, the German inheritance and gift tax influences taxpayer behavior. To that end, it combines administrative data with cross-bracket tax variation: a...

We investigate bunching at personal tax thresholds over a 40-year period. At kinks, where the marginal tax rate rises, we find bunching among company owner-managers and the self-employed, but not those with only employment income. Notches, where the average rate rises, provide compelling...