Download or read book Individual Taxpayer Response to Tax Cuts 1982 1984 with Implications for the Revenue Maximizing Tax Rate written by Lawrence Lindsey and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Individual Taxpayer Response to Tax Cuts 1982 1984 with Implications Forthe Revenue Maximizing Tax Rate written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 mandated a series of tax rate reductions for the period 1982-1984. They represented the most significant changes in the tax rate structure in nearly two decades. This paper considers the response of taxpayers to these cuts and extends these results to estimate the revenue maximizing top tax rate for the personal income tax The methodological emphasis of this paper is to create a baseline income distribution to describe what level and distribution of income could be expected in the absence of tax changes. This baseline is then compared with actual tax return data to measure the change in taxpayer behavior. Throughout this study the National Bureau of Economic Research's TAXSIM model was used to perform the detailed microsimulation work. This paper finds that at least one sixth, and probably one quarter, of the revenue loss ascribable to the 1981 tax law changes was recouped by changes in taxpayer behavior over the period 1982-1984. It concludes that under the tax base of that period, federal income tax revenue would be maximized at a tax rate of about 35 percent, and total income tax revenue maximized at a total tax rate of 40 percent. The findings also suggest that personal income averaged as much as 2 percent higher than it otherwise would have been as a result of the behavioral response of taxpayers to lower tax rates.

Download or read book Individual Taxpayer Response to Tax Cuts 1982 1984 with Implications for the Revenue Maximizing Tax Rate written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Individual Taxpayer Response to Tax Cuts 1982 84 with Implications for the Revenue Maximizing Taxe Rate written by Lawrence B. Lindsey and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Exchequer effect of the 50 per cent additional rate of income tax written by Great Britain: H.M. Revenue & Customs and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the accompanying documents to the 2012 Budget (ISBN 9790102976045) and examines the impact to the Exchequer of the 50% additional rate of income tax, introduced on 6 April 2010. The report seeks to provide the first comprehensive ex-post assessment of the additional rate yield using a range of evidence including 2010-11 Self Assessment returns. Analysis shows that there was a considerable behavioural response to the income tax rate change, including a substantial amount of forestalling, with an estimated £16 to £18 billion of income brought forward to the 2009-10 to avoid the tax increase. The net result of such actions is that the underlying yield from the additional rate was much lower that forecast. The report also describes how the impact of introducing the additional rate may extend well beyond the Exchequer, with the view that higher tax rates make the tax system less competitive and therefore less attractive to establish a business.The publication is divided into six chapters with three annexes.

Download or read book IMF Staff papers Volume 45 No 1 written by International Monetary Fund. Research Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes some leading indicators of currency crises, and proposes a specific early warning system. This system involves monitoring the evolution of several indicators that tend to exhibit an unusual behavior in the periods preceding a crisis. When an indicator exceeds a certain threshold value, this is interpreted as a warning “signal” that a currency crisis may take place. The variables that have the best track record within this approach include exports, deviations of the real exchange rate from trend, and the ratio of broad money to gross international reserves, output, and equity prices.

Download or read book The 2001 Joint Economic Report written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics written by Louis Kaplow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics presents a unified conceptual framework for analyzing taxation--the first to be systematically developed in several decades. An original treatment of the subject rather than a textbook synthesis, the book contains new analysis that generates novel results, including some that overturn long-standing conventional wisdom. This fresh approach should change thinking, research, and teaching for decades to come. Building on the work of James Mirrlees, Anthony Atkinson and Joseph Stiglitz, and subsequent researchers, and in the spirit of classics by A. C. Pigou, William Vickrey, and Richard Musgrave, this book steps back from particular lines of inquiry to consider the field as a whole, including the relationships among different fiscal instruments. Louis Kaplow puts forward a framework that makes it possible to rigorously examine both distributive and distortionary effects of particular policies despite their complex interactions with others. To do so, various reforms--ranging from commodity or estate and gift taxation to regulation and public goods provision--are combined with a distributively offsetting adjustment to the income tax. The resulting distribution-neutral reform package holds much constant while leaving in play the distinctive effects of the policy instrument under consideration. By applying this common methodology to disparate subjects, The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics produces significant cross-fertilization and yields solutions to previously intractable problems.

Download or read book Empirical Foundations of Household Taxation written by Martin Feldstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tax policy debates—and reforms—depend heavily on estimates of how alternative tax rules would affect behavior. Yet there is considerable controversy about the key empirical links among tax rates, household decisions, and revenue collections. The nine papers in this volume exploit the substantial variation in U.S. tax policy during the last two decades to investigate how taxes affect a range of household behavior, including labor-force participation, saving behavior, choice of health insurance plan, choice of child care arrangements, portfolio choice, and tax evasion. They also present new analytical results on the effects of different types of tax policy. All of this research relies on household-level data—drawn either from public-use tax return files or from large household-level surveys—to explore various aspects of the relationship between taxes and household behavior. As debates about the effects of proposed tax reforms continue in the 1990s, this volume will be of interest to policy makers and scholars in the field of public finance.

Download or read book NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1994 written by Stanley Fischer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the ninth in a series of annuals from the National Bureau of Economic Research that are designed to stimulate research on problems in applied economics, to bring frontier theoretical developments to a wider audience, and to accelerate the interaction between analytical and empirical research in macroeconomics. Contents On the Speed of Transition in Eastern Europe, Philippe Aghion and Olivier Jean Blanchard * The Costs of Business Cycles with Incomplete Markets, Andrew Atkeson and Christopher Phelan * The U.S. Fiscal Problem: Where We Are, How We Got Here and Where We Are Going, Alan Auerbach * The East Asian Miracle Economies, John Page * What Ends Recessions? Christina Romer and David Romer * Toward a Modern Macroeconomic Model Usable for Policy Analysis, Christopher Sims and Eric Leeper

Download or read book Tax Policy and the Economy written by James M. Poterba and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tax Policy and the Economy series presents new research bearing on the economiceffects of taxation on economic performance and analysis of the effects of potential tax reforms.Results of research are presented in a timely and accessible fashion and will be of interest to taxpractitioners and those involved in formulating tax policy.James M. Poterba is Professor ofEconomics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Contents: Alternatives to Traditional IRAs:Floors and Ceilings in Saving Incentives, B. Douglas Bernheim. New Evidence on the Incentive Effectsof R&D Tax Credits, Bronwyn H. Hall. Interindustry Subsidies and the Unemployment InsurancePayroll Tax, Bruce D. Meyer. What Do We Know About Enterprise Zones? Leslie E. Papke. Understandingthe Widening Income Distribution of the 1980s, James M. Poterba and Daniel R. Feenberg.

Download or read book Tax Policy and the Economy written by Robert A. Moffitt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in Tax Policy and the Economy Volume 31 are all directly related to important and often long-standing issues, often including how transfer programs affect tax rates and behavior. In the first paper, Alan Auerbach, Laurence Kotlikoff, Darryl Koehler, and Manni Yu take a lifetime perspective on the marginal tax rates facing older individuals and families arising from a comprehensive set of sources. In the second, Gizem Kosar and Robert A. Moffitt provide new estimates of the cumulative marginal tax rates facing low-income families over the period 1997-2007. In the third paper, Emmanuel Saez presents evidence on the elasticity of taxable income with respect to tax rates, drawing on data from the 2013 federal income tax reform. In the fourth, Conor Clarke and Wojciech Kopczuk survey the treatment of business income taxation in the United States since the 1950s, providing new data on how business income and its taxation have evolved over time. In the fifth paper, Louis Kaplow argues that the reduction in statutory tax rates from base-broadening may not reduce effective marginal tax rates on households.

Download or read book The Underground Economy written by Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.) and published by The Fraser Institute. This book was released on 1997 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the back cover: The papers in this ground breaking book constitute a unique collection of information about the underground economy and how it is manifested in a variety of countries. Section One attempts to measure Canada's underground economic activity and provides a specific estimate of the impact that tax changes have on its size. It also looks at the problems of tax evasion and tax avoidance. Section Two deals with the size of the underground substance economy, the legal aspects of tlhe underground economy in the United States, and an asseeement of the economic activities of the Mafia. Section Three analyzes the underground economy abroad, specifically in the United States, Britain, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Russia and China. The fourth section returns to Canada and examines some policy implications of the underground economy. A survey detailed in Section One shows that a majority of Canadians believe that they do not receive enough benefits for the taxation they pay. Section Four offers a solution to the problem of tax evasion and underground economic activity; the adoption of user fees and user taxes.

Download or read book Handbook on Taxation written by W. Bartley Hildreth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 1021 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking reference, this book provides a comprehensive review of tax policy from political, legal, constitutional, administrative, and economic perspectives. A collection of writings from over 45 prominent tax experts, it charts the influence of taxation on economic activity and economic behavior. Featuring over 2400 references, tables, equations, and drawings, the book describes how taxes affect individual and business behavior, shows how taxes operate as work and investment incentives, explains how tax structures impact different income groups, weighs the balanced use of sales, property, and personal income taxes, traces the influence of recent tax changes, and more.

Download or read book Dimensions of Tax Design written by James A. Mirrlees and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Review was chaired by Nobel Laureate Professor Sir James Mirrlees of the University of Cambridge and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. --

Download or read book Concurrent Resolution on the Budget Fiscal Year 2012 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Do Tax Rates Encourage Entrepreneurial Activity written by Mr.Roger H. Gordon and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the top personal tax rates are above the corporate rate, high-income individuals have an incentive to reclassify their earnings as corporate rather than personal income for tax purposes. U.S. tax law at least imposes strict limits on the extent to which employees in publicly traded corporations can engage in such income shifting. However, entrepreneurs setting up new firms can easily reclassify their income for tax purposes. This tax incentive therefore favors entrepreneurial activity. The paper discusses how best to subsidize entrepreneurial activity while avoiding other economic distortions.