Lifetime Incidence and the Distributional Burden of Excise Taxes
This implies that low-income households in one year have some chance of being higher-income households in other years, and significantly affects the estimated distributional burden of excise taxes. This paper shows that household expenditures on gasoline, alcohol, and tobacco as a share of total consumption (a proxy for lifetime income) are much more equally distributed than expenditures as a share of annual income. From a longer-horizon perspective, excise taxes on these goods are therefore much less regressive than standard analyses suggest.
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Volume (Year): 79 (1989)
Issue (Month): 2 (May)
Pages: 325-330
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