Arbeitspapier

Pareto-improving bequest taxation

Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show that in the presence of wage taxation, a small bequest tax may improve efficiency in an overlapping-generations framework with only intended bequests, by enhancing incentives of parents to invest in their children's education. This result holds even if the wage tax rate is held constant when introducing bequest taxation. We also calculate an optimal mix of wage and bequest taxes with alternative parameter combinations. In all cases, the optimal wage tax rate is clearly higher than the optimal bequest tax rate, but the latter is generally positive when the required government revenue in the economy is sufficiently high.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 2277

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Erbschaftsteuer
Optimale Besteuerung
Bildungsinvestition
Privater Transfer
Lohnsteuer
Overlapping Generations
Pareto-Optimum
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Grossmann, Volker
Poutvaara, Panu
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2006

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Grossmann, Volker
  • Poutvaara, Panu
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2006

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