Equilibrium Tax Rates under Ex-ante Heterogeneity and Income-dependent Voting

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Hyun Chang ◽  
Yongsung Chang ◽  
Sun-Bin Kim
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Incomplete Markets ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Equilibrium Outcome ◽  
Current Income ◽  
Ex Ante ◽  
Standard Models ◽  
Dependent Voting

Abstract The standard models with incomplete markets (e.g. Aiyagari) have difficulty justifying the current income tax rates as an optimal or political equilibrium outcome. Given the highly skewed income distribution, the majority of the population would be in favor of raising taxes to a much higher level. We show that incorporating (i) the ex-ante heterogeneity of earnings and (ii) income-dependent voting behavior helps us to reconcile the large gap between the model and data.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF TAX POLICY ON ECONOMIC GROWTH, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, AND ALLOCATION OF TAXES

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Gwartney ◽  
Robert A. Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Personal Income Tax ◽  
Income Groups ◽  
Marginal Tax Rates ◽  
Tax Changes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Distribution Of Income

Using a sample of seventy-seven countries, this paper focuses on marginal tax rates and the income thresholds at which they apply to examine how the tax changes of the 1980s and 1990s have influenced economic growth, the distribution of income, and the share of taxes paid by various income groups. Many countries substantially reduced their highest marginal rates during the 1985-1995 period. The findings indicate that countries that reduced their highest marginal rates grew more rapidly than those that maintained high marginal rates. At the same time, the income distribution in several of the tax cutting countries became more unequal while there was little change or even a reduction in income inequality in most countries that maintained high marginal rates. Finally, the evidence suggests that there was a shift in the payment of the personal income tax away from those with low and middle incomes and toward those with the highest incomes.

scholarly journals Statutory, effective, and optimal net tax schedules in Lithuania

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nerijus Cerniauskas ◽  
Alain Jousten
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
The Self ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Net Income

Abstract We estimate effective and optimal net income tax schedules and compare them to the estimated statutory rates for the case of Lithuania for the period 2014–2015. Values of effective net tax rates are estimated from the survey of EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions; the statutory net tax rates are estimated with the European tax-benefit simulator EUROMOD, whereas optimal net taxes are calculated via Saez (2002) methodology. We find that the three net tax schedules are similar for employees in the middle of the income distribution. At the bottom of the income distribution, optimal net tax schedules suggest higher in-work benefits. The net tax schedules diverge substantially for the self-employed. At the top of the income distribution, where the majority of self-employed are concentrated, the self-employed are required to pay 15 cents less net taxes per Euro than employees—and they effectively pay 29 cents less.

Higher Taxes at the Top: The Role of Entrepreneurs

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Bettina Brüggemann
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Welfare Gains ◽  
Marginal Tax Rate ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Marginal Tax Rates

This paper computes optimal top marginal tax rates in Bewley-Huggett-Aiyagari–type economies that include entrepreneurs. Consistent with the data, entrepreneurs are overrepresented at the top of the income distribution and are thus disproportionately affected by an increase in the top marginal income tax rate. The top marginal tax rate that maximizes welfare is 60 percent. While average welfare gains are positive and similar across occupations along the transition, they are larger for entrepreneurs than for workers in the long run, and this occupational gap in welfare gains after the tax increase widens with increasing income. (JEL D11, D21, D31, H21, H24, L26)

scholarly journals Effective Taxation of Top Incomes in Germany

2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Bach ◽  
Giacomo Corneo ◽  
Viktor Steiner
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Tax Revenue ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Tax Base ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Top Incomes ◽  
Tax Returns ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Income Tax Reform

Abstract We exploit a dataset that includes the individual tax returns of all taxpayers in the top percentile of the income distribution in Germany to pin down the effective income taxation of households with very high incomes. Taking tax base erosion into account, we find that the top percentile of the income distribution pays an effective average tax rate of 30.5% and contributes more than a quarter of total income tax revenue. Within the top percentile, the effective average tax rate is first increasing, then decreasing, with income. Since the 1990s, effective average tax rates for the German super-rich have fallen by about a third, with major reductions occurring in the wake of the personal income tax reform of 2001-05. As a result, the concentration of net incomes at the very top of the distribution has strongly increased in Germany.

Assessment of changes in the application of the accounting regulation pbu 18/02 “Аccounting for income tax calculations” since 2020

2020 ◽  
pp. 10-24
Author(s):  
Irina Selezneva ◽  
Irina Selezneva ◽  
Elena Shlyapnikova
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Accounting Data ◽  
Current Income ◽  
Accounting Regulation ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Net Profit ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Ministry Of Finance ◽  
Tax Payers

The article assesses the changes made by the Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation dated 20.11.2018 No. 236n v PBU 18/02 “Accounting for settlements with the budget for income tax”. The application of the new norms of PBU 18/02 is mandatory for corporate income tax payers with accounting (financial) statements for 2020. The essence of the problem is that the updated PBU 18/02 contains new concepts, new calculations of indicators necessary for reflection in accounting and accounting (financial) statements. The article consists of six parts, beginning with an introduction and ending with conclusions. The introduction substantiates the relevance of the study. At the beginning of the article, the purpose and objectives of the research are defined, as well as the materials, methods and conditions for conducting the research. The results of the study and their discussion are presented below. In the article, the authors highlight the problem of transition from the previously existing norms of PBU 18/02 to the new norms applied from 2020. The main part compares the concepts and indicators used in 2019 and 2020 in accordance with the requirements of PBU 18/02. The article also addresses the issues of evaluating work in progress in accordance with the requirements of regulatory legal acts in the field of accounting and taxation. The procedure for applying the norms of PBU 18/02 is shown on a specific example and the calculation procedures made that justify the occurrence of temporary differences that lead to the recognition of deferred income tax, as well as conditional income tax expense and current income tax on the accounting accounts. For clarity and comparison, the indicators for the application of PBU 18/02 in 2019 and 2020 are presented in the tables. In addition, the tables show the schemes of accounting transactions for accounting calculations with the budget for income tax in two ways to determine the current income tax: based on accounting data and based on tax Declaration data. Having considered a specific example of the procedure for applying the norms of PBU 18/02 in the version up to 2020 and in the current version from 2020, the authors conclude that changes in the procedure for identifying temporary differences do not mean a change in their value and the value of net profit

scholarly journals Measurement of inequality of opportunity: A normative approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristof Bosmans ◽  
Z. Emel Öztürk
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Inequality Of Opportunity ◽  
Welfare Gain ◽  
Allocation Rules ◽  
Normative Approach ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Ante ◽  
Measurement Of Inequality

AbstractWe develop a normative approach to the measurement of inequality of opportunity. That is, we measure inequality of opportunity by the welfare gain obtained in moving from the actual income distribution to the optimal income distribution of the total available income. Our study brings together the main approaches in the literature: we axiomatically characterize social welfare functions, we obtain prominent allocation rules as their optima, and we derive familiar classes of inequality of opportunity measures. Our analysis captures moreover the key philosophical distinctions in the literature: ex post versus ex ante compensation, and liberal versus utilitarian reward.

Optimal Taxation of Families: Mirrlees meets Becker*

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Musab Kurnaz
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Optimal Taxation ◽  
Tax Credits ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Welfare Gains ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
Parental Time ◽  
The Us

Abstract This paper studies optimal taxation of families—a combination of an income tax schedule and child tax credits. Child-rearing requires both goods and parental time, which distinctly impact the design of optimal child tax credits. In the quantitative analysis, I calibrate my model to the US economy and show that the optimal child tax credits are U-shaped in income and are decreasing in family size. In particular, the optimal credits decrease in the first nine deciles of the income distribution and then increase thereafter. Implementing the optimum yields large welfare gains.

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