Capital gains revenue estimates rely on a long history of research empirically estimating the tax elasticity of capital gains realizations. These elasticity estimates have varied from zero to well over 3 in absolute value depending on numerous factors, such as the time frame studied, the type of...

This study updates previous research estimating the persistent effect of tax changes on capital gains realizations by using a large panel of tax returns from 1999 to 2008. Similar to earlier studies in the literature, we use the type II Tobit model to address the sample selection problem and the...