This article investigates the heterogeneity in the tax elasticities of personal capital gains realizations. We first examine the skewed nature of both capital gains assets ownership and their realizations. We then briefly review earlier studies, including Dowd, McClelland, and Muthitacharoen...

This study updates previous research estimating the persistent effect of tax changes on capital gains realizations by using a large panel of tax returns from 1999 to 2008. Similar to earlier studies in the literature, we use the type II Tobit model to address the sample selection problem and the...

We describe a simple model of taxpayer decisions to realize or delay their capital gains and losses. Investors will delay their realizations if the after tax rate of return is sufficiently high. As the holding period for the asset approaches a year and a day (after which capital gains are taxed...