Seit dem Jahr 2016 wurde der Einkommensteuertarif jährlich an die Inflation angepasst, um die sonst automatisch steigende durchschnittliche Belastung der Einkommen - die "kalte Progression" - auszugleichen. Zu diesem Zweck wurden Grundfreibetrag und Tarifeckwerte verschoben, sodass die...

This paper studies the aggregate and distributional effects of raising the top marginal income tax rate in the presence of tax avoidance. To this end, we develop a quantitative macroeconomic model with heterogeneous agents and occupational choice in which entrepreneurs can avoid taxes in two...

We examine individuals’ responsiveness to marginal tax rates using the universe of Australian taxpayer records from 2000 to 2018. Unlike studies from other countries, we find sharp bunching at all kink points. The estimated Elasticities of Taxable Income (ETI) range from effectively zero for...

Background: The article evaluates the influence of the type of nominal personal income tax rate on its progressivity. This is examined in the Czech Republic in the period 1993-2020. Between 1993 and 2007, the nominal tax rate was progressive, while from 2008 until the end of 2020, the nominal...

This paper characterizes the optimal taxation of top earners in a world with externalities. It takes a reduced-form approach that spans a broad class of models where top earners create externalities on the economy. The model allows for a flexible relationship between top earnings and the...

This paper examines the impact of the Alternative Minimum Tax on the weighted average marginal tax rates that apply to various components of taxable income. It also considers the impact of several AMT reform proposals on the number of AMT taxpayers, the total revenue collected from the AMT, and...

The economic effects of taxation depend on the configuration of marginal tax rates. We consider here the appropriate measure of a marginal tax rate for the federal individual income tax, which has a graduated-rate structure and allows for numerous legal and illegal deductions from total...

We study the optimal income tax problem when policymakers have only limited information about household preferences and wage process. To this end, we build an incomplete-market life-cycle model of heterogeneous households and measure uncertainty about preference and wage parameters through...

Personal Income Tax (PIT) is one of the key sources of revenues in Advanced Economies (AEs) but plays a much more limited role in Low-Income Developing Countries (LIDCs) and Emerging Market Economies (EMEs), both in terms of revenue and redistributive impact. Notwithstanding, this paper shows...

This paper develops a model of Tiebout sorting with decentrally determined progressive income taxation and a built-in fiscal equalization scheme that redistributes money from richer to poorer regions. Both aspects are central to policy makers: the progressivity for equity reasons and the fiscal...

Personal Income Tax (PIT) is one of the key sources of revenues in Advanced Economies (AEs) but plays a much more limited role in Low-Income Developing Countries (LIDCs) and Emerging Market Economies (EMEs), both in terms of revenue and redistributive impact. Notwithstanding, this paper shows...

Half of the jobs in the U.S. feature pay-for-performance. We derive novel incidence and optimum formulas for the overall rate of tax progressivity and the top tax rates on total earnings and bonuses, when such labor contracts arise from moral hazard frictions within firms. Optimal taxes account...

Using 2.21 million units of data from the National Bureau of Statistics’ China Industrial Enterprises Database, during 1998-2013, we adopt the static panel model and the dynamic panel model to more accurately examine the impact of changes in corporate income tax rates on employment. The...

Half of the jobs in the U.S. feature pay-for-performance. We derive novel incidence and optimum formulas for the overall rate of tax progressivity and the top tax rates on total earnings and bonuses, when such labor contracts arise from moral hazard frictions within firms. Optimal taxes account...

This paper begins with a survey of the literature on the political economy approaches to labor income taxation. We focus on recent progress made by examining in detail the specific properties of non-linear taxes derived in the context of voting. Next, we present new results on the existence of...

We study the joint design of nonlinear income and education taxes when the government pursues redistributive objectives. A key feature of our setup is that the ability type of an agent can affect both the costs and benefits of acquiring education. Market remuneration of agents depends on both...

With more and more of the UK’s wealthiest individuals relocating to overseas tax havens to avoid the UK’s residence-based personal income tax, the need to address this specific form of tax avoidance is pressing. This article argues for the adoption of Continental-style conditional...

Die Kalte Progression führt einerseits dazu, dass real konstante Einkommen mit der Zeit in höhere Regionen des Einkommensteuertarifs rutschen und stärker belastet werden sowie anderseits die gesamtwirtschaftliche Steuerquote (Steuereinnahmen als Anteil am Bruttoinlandsprodukt) automatisch...

Der Bericht untersucht unter Verwendung von Haushaltsbefragungsdaten (SOEP) und dem Mikrosimulationsmodell des RWI EMSIM die Verteilungswirkung einer aufkommensneutralen Einführung eines bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens bei gleichzeitigem Wegfall ausgewählter Sozialleistungen und einer...

We study the joint design of nonlinear income and education taxes when the government pursues redistributive objectives. A key feature of our setup is that the ability type of an agent can affect both the costs and benefits of acquiring education. Market remuneration of agents depends on both...

Der aktuelle Einkommensteuertarif belastet Mittelschichten und Besserverdienende relativ stark durch den schnellen Anstieg der Progression. Entlastungen durch eine Anhebung des Grundfreibetrags oder eine Abmagerung des Mittelstandsbauchs führen leicht zu Steuerausfällen von höheren...

The traditional normative literature on fiscal federalism argues that redistributive policies should be centralized in order to avoid welfare- or tax-induced migration. However, recent evidence shows that even in a setup where the progressivity of the income tax schedule is centralized to an...

This paper investigates empirically the effect of personal income tax progressivity on output volatility in a sample of OECD countries over the period 1982-2009. Our measure of tax progressivity is based on the difference between the marginal and the average income tax rate for the average...

The paper presents empirical evidence on the interrelationship between output growth and the reliance of the tax system on income taxes in developing countries. It uses cross-country and pooled cross-country-time-series data to estimate a variety of multiple regression equations containing...

This paper investigates the effect of entrepreneurs' personal income tax situations on their capital investment decisions. We examine the income tax returns of a sample of sole proprietors before and after the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and determine how the substantial reductions in marginal tax...

This paper derives optimal income tax formulas using compensated and uncompensated elasticities of earnings with respect to tax rates. A simple formula for the high income optimal tax rate is obtained as a function of these elasticities and the thickness of the top tail of the income...

Relative to traditional piecewise linear income taxation schemes, it is possible to increase government revenues by offering to consumers a menu of linear income tax schedules. In the resulting Pareto-superior equilibrium, consumers sort themselves out according to their (unobservable)...