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Estate Taxes and Charitable Bequests by the Wealthy

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David Joulfaian

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Charitable bequests are an important source of philanthropic support. Unlike bequests to children which can be taxed at a maximum statutory rate of 0.55, such transfers are exempt from estate taxation. Thus, by lowering the price of charitable giving, the estate tax may influence the disposition of terminal wealth. In this paper, I examine the effects of estate taxation on charitable bequests using data from estate tax returns of decedents in 1992. The results suggest that the estate tax deduction is budget' efficient. The overall effects of the estate tax, however, are likely to be modest as charitable bequests are wealth elastic.

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Publication status: published as Joulfaian, David. "Estate Taxes And Charitable Bequests By The Wealthy," National Tax Journal, 2000, v53(3,Sep), Part 2, 743-763.
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  1. Boskin, Michael J., 1976. "Estate taxation and charitable bequests," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 5(1-2), pages 27-56. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Wilhelm, Mark O, 1996. "Bequest Behavior and the Effect of Heirs' Earnings: Testing the Altruistic Model of Bequests," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 86(4), pages 874-92, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. Auten, Gerald & Joulfaian, David, 1996. "Charitable contributions and intergenerational transfers," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 59(1), pages 55-68, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. David Joulfaian, 2005. "Choosing Between Gifts and Bequests: How Taxes Affect the Timing of Wealth Transfers," NBER Working Papers 11025, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. James M. Poterba & Scott Weisbenner, 2000. "The Distributional Burden of Taxing Estates and Unrealized Capital Gains at the Time of Death," NBER Working Papers 7811, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Miguel Angel Barberán Lahuerta, 2006. "Redistribution and progressivity of taxes on inheritances and donations and analysis with data of panel," Hacienda Pública Española, IEF, vol. 177(2), pages 25-55, April. [Downloadable!]
  4. Wen-Chun Chang, 2005. "Religious Giving, Non-religious Giving, and After-life Consumption," Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. 5(1), pages 1421-1421. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Jon Bakija & William Gale & Joel Slemrod, 2003. "Charitable Bequests and Taxes on Inheritance and Estates: Aggregate Evidence from Across States and Time," NBER Working Papers 9661, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  6. David Joulfaian, 2005. "Estate Taxes and Charitable Bequests: Evidence from Two Tax Regimes," Public Economics 0505004, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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