Inflation magnifies the distorting effects of taxation when the tax treatment of interest income and expense is not fully indexed to inflation. The distortion involves a real interest tax wedge which is the difference between the real before tax interest rate that influences fully taxed investors and the real after tax interest rate that influences savers. Reducing the real tax wedge by eliminating inflation or indexing would stimulate private saving and non-residential investment, but decrease tax receipts and the tax deductions that subsidize home ownership.
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Paper provided by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in its series Working Papers with number
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Length: Date of creation: 1998 Date of revision: Publication status: Published in Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, January/February 1998, 80(1), pp. 29-36 Handle: RePEc:fip:fedlwp:1998-005
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