Arbeitspapier

Assessing income tax perturbations

We present a scheme for analysing income tax perturbations, applied to a real Norwegian tax reform during 2016 - 2018. The framework decomposes the reform into a structural reform part and a tax level effect. The former consists of a distributional impact and a social effi ciency effect measured as the behavioural-induced change in tax revenue. Considering the overall welfare effect conditional on inequality aversion, we back out the pivotal value of the decision makers' inequality aversion, according to which unfavourable redistributional effects exactly cancel out a social efficiency enhancement.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 945

Classification
Wirtschaft
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes
Subject
income tax
tax reform
tax perturbation
inequality aversion

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Christiansen, Vidar
Jia, Zhiyang
Thoresen, Thor Olav
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Statistics Norway, Research Department
(where)
Oslo
(when)
2020

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Christiansen, Vidar
  • Jia, Zhiyang
  • Thoresen, Thor Olav
  • Statistics Norway, Research Department

Time of origin

  • 2020

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