Cost of income sheltering behaviors and Elasticity of taxable income for high-income individuals - Arezou Zaresani
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Room CBE LT3
Thursday, June 29, 2023 |
12:25 PM - 12:55 PM |
Overview
PUBLIC ECONOMICS: TAXATION
Convenor: Ashley Craig
Speaker
Dr Arezou Zaresani
Lecturer
University of Sydney
Cost of income sheltering behaviors and Elasticity of taxable income for high-income individuals
Abstract
How much are high-income taxpayers willing to forgo to shelter one dollar of their income from taxes? Exploring a natural experiment and using administrative individual tax data, we estimate the marginal cost of income-sheltering behaviors and the elasticity of taxable income for high-income individuals. Our estimates from static and dynamic bunching models show that the marginal cost of sheltering one dollar from a 5 percent marginal income tax is about 2 cents. The estimated cost is heterogeneous by employment type, sex, and age.