Arbeitspapier

Reducing the excess burden of subsidizing the stork: joint taxation, individual taxation, and family tax splitting

Analyzing a homogenous household setting with endogenous fertility and endogenous labor supply, we demonstrate that moving from joint taxation to individual taxation and adapting child benefits so as to keep fertility constant entails a Pareto improvement. The change is associated with an increase in labor supply and consumption and a reduction of the marginal income tax, while the child benefit may move in either direction. Similarly, a move from joint taxation to some scheme of family tax splitting increases labor supply and welfare.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2470

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household
Demographic Economics: Public Policy
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Thema
Income taxation
fertility
splitting
labor supply
Familienbesteuerung
Excess Burden
Haushaltsökonomik
Familienökonomik
Arbeitsangebot
Wohlfahrtseffekt
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Meier, Volker
Wrede, Matthias
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2008

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Meier, Volker
  • Wrede, Matthias
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2008

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