A NOTE ON THE TAX-INDUCED CLIENTELE EFFECT AND TAX REFORM

Tax Reform and Poverty

The tax system has a pervasive impact on poverty, both directly through its role in the distribution of society’s resources and indirectly through its effects on the incentives for economic decisions like working and saving. The two most important facets of the tax system for low-income families are payroll taxes and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), the former of which levies a tax on earne...

The Effect of on tax professionals ' perception of tax complexity on tax compliance behavior

Today, the role of tax professionals has become an important issue in tax policy due to more complex and ambiguous tax laws. For this reason, the study of the activities of tax professionals is important for two reasons. Firstly, Taxpayers use the services of tax professionals to meet their tax obligations. Secondly, tax professionals, more than taxpayers, experience the issue of tax complexity...

Evaluating International Tax Reform

This paper introduces “capital ownership neutrality” (CON) and “national ownership neutrality” (NON) as benchmarks for evaluating the desirability of international tax reforms, and applies them to analyze recent U.S. tax reform proposals. Tax systems satisfy CON if they do not distort the ownership of capital assets, which promotes global efficiency whenever the productivity of an investment di...

The Truth About Tax Reform

The Dividend Clientele Hypothesis : Evidence from the 2003 Tax Act ∗

In this paper, I test the dividend clientele hypothesis (DCH) by examining the impact of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (the 2003 tax act) on household portfolio dividend yields. The DCH predicts that the 2003 tax act, which reduced the tax-disadvantage of dividends differentially across the income distribution, would cause high income households to shift their portfo...