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

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  1. Rodolfo G. Campos & Iliana Reggio, 2013. "Measurement error in imputation procedures," Banco de Espa�a Working Papers 1322, Banco de Espa�a.
  2. Spencer Bastani & Sören Blomquist & Luca Micheletto, 2013. "The Welfare Gains Of Age‐Related Optimal Income Taxation," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 54, pages 1219-1249, November.
  3. Koehne, Sebastian & Kuhn, Moritz, 2013. "Optimal capital taxation for time-nonseparable preferences," Annual Conference 2013 (Duesseldorf): Competition Policy and Regulation in a Global Economic Order 79951, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
  4. Sebastian Koehne & Moritz Kuhn, 2014. "Optimal Taxation in a Habit Formation Economy," CESifo Working Paper Series 4581, CESifo Group Munich.

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