Artikel

The elasticity of taxable income in Spain: 1999-2014

We study how taxable income responds to changes in marginal tax rates, using as a main source of identifying variation three large reforms to the Spanish personal income tax implemented in the period 1999-2014. The most reliable estimates of the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) with respect to the net-of-tax rate for this period are between 0.45 and 0.64. The ETI is about three times larger for self-employed taxpayers than for employees and larger for business income than for labor and capital income. The elasticity of broad income is smaller, between 0.10 and 0.24, while the elasticity of some tax deductions such as the one for private pension contributions exceeds one. Our estimates are similar across a variety of estimation methods and sample restrictions and also robust to potential biases created by mean reversion and heterogeneous income trends.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association ; ISSN: 1869-4195 ; Volume: 10 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: 3/4 ; Pages: 281-320

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Household
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Thema
Elasticity of taxable income
ETI
Personal income tax
Mean reversion
Tax deductions
Spain

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Almunia, Miguel
López Rodríguez, David
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Springer
(wo)
Heidelberg
(wann)
2019

DOI
doi:10.1007/s13209-019-00208-x
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Almunia, Miguel
  • López Rodríguez, David
  • Springer

Entstanden

  • 2019

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