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, pension saving is taxed at a relatively low rate, although the revenue loss due to tax facilities for pension savings and … budgetary effects of a cash-flow tax regime for pension savings by full present-value calculations. The fiscal subsidy on … pension savings in several (European) countries is often associated with the application of the cash-flow treatment of …
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crucial for understanding their effectiveness in raising retirement savings and alleviating the fiscal pressures of population …
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We investigate the optimal savings decisions for investors with access to pre-tax (traditional) and post-tax (Roth …
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' savings for retirement. We consider voluntary accounts as opposed to mandatory accounts with minimum contribution rates. We …
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order to incentivize pension savings and increase the fairness of the retirement system. Using administrative tax micro …
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determine retirement savings and tax payments. Flat income and tax-rate profiles facilitate the analysis of behavioral factors … like present-period tax avoidance, while optimal consumption and after-tax savings are identical for both treatments. Our … results show that observed savings are suboptimal in both treatments and are influenced by gender, patience, and risk aversion …
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Retirement savings abandonment is a rising concern connected to defined contribution systems and default enrollment. We … automatic rollover IRAs, a type of default account. We nest our findings in a model of retirement savings featuring forgetting …
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We empirically investigate the distributional consequences of the Riester scheme, the main private pension subsidization program in Germany. We find that 38% of the aggregate subsidy accrues to the top two deciles of the population, but only 7.3% to the bottom two. Nonetheless the Riester scheme...
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We examine the incidence on household consumption of the introduction of tax incentives to retirement saving. First, using data from a panel of tax returns we document that most contributions to pension funds are by older/high-income individuals. Then we use panel data from a consumption survey...
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Many countries have tax facilities for pension savings. These facilities are often associated with the application of … cash-flow tax regime for pension savings by full present-value calculations. A comprehensive income tax system is used as a …
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