Kumar, Anil; Liang, Che-yuan - 2017
We explore the implications of heterogeneity in the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) for tax-reform based estimation … illustrate the empirical importance of our theoretical analysis using the NBER tax panel for 1979-1990. We show that elasticity … suggested method yields elasticity estimates of approximately 0.7 for taxable income and 0.2 for broad income. …