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Optimal Income Taxation with Asset Accumulation

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  • Sebastian Koehne

    (IIES, Stockholm University)

  • Nicola Pavoni

    (Bocconi University)

  • Arpad Abraham

    (European University Institute)

Abstract

Several frictions might prevent (or make undesirable) the full taxation of savings. Due to international capital mobility, for instance, the government may not have perfect control over agent's saving and consumption decisions. We show in this paper that a restricted ability to tax savings has important implications for the taxation of labor income. Specifically, when agents have preferences with convex absolute risk-aversion, we find that optimal marginal tax rates on labor income become more regressive when savings cannot be fully taxed.

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  • Sebastian Koehne & Nicola Pavoni & Arpad Abraham, 2011. "Optimal Income Taxation with Asset Accumulation," 2011 Meeting Papers 1161, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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    JEL classification:

    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation

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