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We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … income levels. Optimal capital taxes are significant and yield sizable welfare gains; in particular if labor income taxes are …
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We show in a two-period world with endogenous savings and two assets, one of them exhibiting a stochastic return, that an interest-adjusted income tax is optimal. This tax leaves a riskless component of interest income tax free and taxes the excess return with a special tax rate. There is no...
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Should the realized risk premium be taxed or not? In a simple two asset portfolio model we analyze the optimal taxation rule when the economy faces aggregate risk. We show in an appropriate designed tax system, that the risk premium of the risky asset should be fully taxed if the households are...
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