Demographics, especially the size and the age composition of the population, contribute substantially to the growth and structure of any economy. Over the next 55 years, the age composition of the US population will change dramatically, as the post-World War II 'baby boom' ages into retirement....

The authors use a unique data set of federal tax returns to analyze usage and participation patterns of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) over the period 1989-2006. The authors find that most EITC recipients claimed the EITC for short periods, 61% for 1 or 2 years. Over the period examined,...

Public Law 115-97, commonly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, was passed at the end of 2017 and drastically altered the taxation of corporate income with fundamental changes to the treatment of cross-border income flows. We focus on the potential impact of one particular provision, 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...

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...

There has been considerable recent interest in reducing the corporate tax rate. As a first step toward analyzing the macroeconomic consequences of such a reform, we consider a rate reduction from the current statutory rate of 35 to 30 percent. We present the results under differing assumptions...