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Pareto-improving bequest taxation

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dc.creator Grossmann, Volker
dc.creator Poutvaara, Panu
dc.date 2005
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:02:15Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:02:15Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18979
dc.identifier ppn:500538255
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18979
dc.description 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.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation CESifo working papers 1515
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject H31
dc.subject I21
dc.subject H21
dc.subject D64
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject bequest taxation
dc.subject bequests
dc.subject education
dc.subject Pareto improvement
dc.subject Erbschaftsteuer
dc.subject Optimale Besteuerung
dc.subject Bildungsinvestition
dc.subject Privater Transfer
dc.subject Lohnsteuer
dc.subject Overlapping Generations
dc.subject Pareto-Optimum
dc.subject Theorie
dc.title Pareto-improving bequest taxation
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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