Boar, Corina
Should we tax capital income or wealth? / Corina Boar and Virgiliu Midrigan
Resumen.
Bibliografía.
We study optimal capital income and wealth taxation in an economy that reproduces the importance of private businesses for output and inequality. If entrepreneurs are subject to collateral constraints, they face heterogeneous rates of return, which generate a meaningful distinction between capital income and wealth taxation. We find that taxing capital income is preferable to taxing wealth because the efficiency gains from wealth taxation are swamped by the redistributional benefits of taxing the profits of richer entrepreneurs. Consequently, the gains from taxing wealth are modest. This conclusion is robust to the planner's preference for redistribution and allowing for nonlinear taxes
RIQUEZA
RENDIMIENTOS DE CAPITAL
IMPUESTOS
RENTA
REDISTRIBUCION
ESTADOS UNIDOS
Midrigan, Virgiliu
The American Economic Review 2640-205X v. 5, n. 2, June 2023, p. 259-274
Should we tax capital income or wealth? / Corina Boar and Virgiliu Midrigan
Resumen.
Bibliografía.
We study optimal capital income and wealth taxation in an economy that reproduces the importance of private businesses for output and inequality. If entrepreneurs are subject to collateral constraints, they face heterogeneous rates of return, which generate a meaningful distinction between capital income and wealth taxation. We find that taxing capital income is preferable to taxing wealth because the efficiency gains from wealth taxation are swamped by the redistributional benefits of taxing the profits of richer entrepreneurs. Consequently, the gains from taxing wealth are modest. This conclusion is robust to the planner's preference for redistribution and allowing for nonlinear taxes
RIQUEZA
RENDIMIENTOS DE CAPITAL
IMPUESTOS
RENTA
REDISTRIBUCION
ESTADOS UNIDOS
Midrigan, Virgiliu
The American Economic Review 2640-205X v. 5, n. 2, June 2023, p. 259-274