wealth. A wealth tax without a discount for working capital combined with a tax rate on ordinary income equal to the …Taxation of capital income and wealth redistributes from the rich but may harm the Norwegian economy as business … investments is distorted. This study shows how to redistribute from the richest without distorting investment decisions of foreign …

This paper discusses alternative methods to estimate the distribution of wealth in New Zealand. It develops a taxable … income capitalisation method for estimating the distribution of wealth in New Zealand that is based on the approach of Saez … generate taxable income flows, particularly towards the top of the wealth distribution where household surveys often undercount …

tax country to a lower tax country. Self-made billionaires are more likely to move to countries with larger market sizes …

Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is … typically trivial: self-employed persons. This paper investigates entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation …

We evaluate the effectiveness of a more progressive tax scheme in raising government revenues. We develop a life …-cycle economy with heterogeneity and endogenous labor supply. Households face a progressive income tax schedule, mimicking the … Federal Income tax, and flat-rate taxes that capture payroll, state and local taxes and the corporate income tax. We …

limitations on it. Discusses the estate tax, its economic effects and effectiveness in equalizing the distribution of wealth …This article examines the distribution of wealth and theories justifying both the acquisition of great wealth and …. Concludes that it has been very ineffective and that there is a case for abolishing the estate tax …

Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is … typically trivial: self-employed persons. This paper investigates entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation …

tax country to a lower tax country. Self-made billionaires are more likely to move to countries with larger market sizes …

tax schedule that taxed the wealthy class but left average Americans untaxed. To raise the balance needed McAdoo conceived ……the economic equivalent of the military front.” I argue that the combination of the class tax and the Liberty Loan Campaign was a …

outcomes. This paper studies the effects of slavery on black-white wealth inequality upon the emancipation of slaves in the US … using historical data.The purpose of wealth has varied from over time. From an economics perspective, wealth is the …, such that they have an incentive to accumulate material wealth for inter-temporal household consumption and social …