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Evident on both sides of the Tasman has been an increase in the use of trusts for tax planning purposes, brought about by high tax rates in the middle income ranges. This article seeks to answer why the trust is such a successful vehicle for income tax planning, discussing the scheme and...
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A hundred years after tax concessions for charitable contributions were introduced as part of the personal income taxes that many countries enacted during the First World War, these countries continue to debate the appropriate level and structure of tax concessions for charitable gifts. This...
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This paper examines whether income transparency - the public release of citizens' income information - affects support for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities release income information on Finland's top earners to...
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Several recent studies show that the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is not a sufficient statistic for the welfare … indicate an overall ETI between 0.35 and 0.68 and an elasticity of deductions with respect to the net-of-tax rate between -0 …
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The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is often interpreted as a sufficient statistic to assess the welfare costs of … 0.49 and an elasticity of deductions with respect to the net-of-tax rate of -2.80. Given that the majority of deductions … in the German income tax system generate externalities, our nonzero deduction elasticity suggests that the ETI is not …
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The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is often interpreted as a sufficient statistic to assess the welfare costs of … 0.49 and an elasticity of deductions with respect to the net-of-tax rate of -2.80. Given that the majority of deductions … in the German income tax system generate externalities, our non-zero deduction elasticity suggests that the ETI is not …
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This paper reports estimates of the elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate for New Zealand … taxpayers. The elasticity of taxable income was estimated to be substantially higher for the highest income groups. Generally it …
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The empirical literature on the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) sometimes questions whether estimated values are …
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the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) with respect to the net-of-tax rate for this period are between 0.45 and 0.64. The … labor and capital income. The elasticity of broad income (EBI) is smaller, between 0.10 and 0.24, while the elasticity of … variety of estimation methods and sample restrictions, and also robust to potential biases created by mean reversion and …
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