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New Evidence on the Tax Elasticity of Capital Gains: Working Paper 2012-09

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  • Tim Dowd
  • Robert McClelland
  • Athiphat Muthitacharoen

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This study uses a large panel of tax returns from 1999 to 2008 to investigate how taxes affect the decision to realize gains. The study distinguishes the persistent effect of tax changes from the transitory effect. Similar to earlier studies in the literature, we use the generalized Tobit model to address the sample selection problem and the endogeneity problem in the tax variables, but we improve the identification of the tax elasticity by using the presence of carryover loss as an exclusion restriction. We also control for the financial sophistication of taxpayers because

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  • Tim Dowd & Robert McClelland & Athiphat Muthitacharoen, 2012. "New Evidence on the Tax Elasticity of Capital Gains: Working Paper 2012-09," Working Papers 43334, Congressional Budget Office.
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    3. Dowd, Tim & McClelland, Robert & Muthitacharoen, Athiphat, 2012. "Heterogeneity in the Tax Responses of Personal Capital Gains Realizations," National Tax Journal, National Tax Association;National Tax Journal, vol. 65(4), pages 827-840, December.

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