Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland

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Behavioral Responses to an Annual Wealth Tax: Evidence from Sweden

This paper addresses the behavioral effects of an annual wealth tax. I use Swedish tax records over the period 2000-2006 to estimate bunching at kink points in the progressive tax schedule and find significant estimates of the implied elasticity of taxable net wealth in the range [0.1, 0.3]. I decompose the effects into a reporting response and a real saving response. Using asset-level data on ...

The Behavioral Response to Housing Transfer Taxes: Evidence from a Notched Change in D.C. Policy

This paper estimates the behavioral response to residential real estate transfer taxes by studying notched tax rate changes in Washington D.C., exploiting both a price and time notch as identifying variation. We provide evidence that there is manipulation of the sales price to the lower-tax-rate region around the price notch, and use this manipulation to show that there was significant awarenes...

Health responses to a wealth shock: evidence from a Swedish tax reform

This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the effects of wealth on health. First, it deals with reverse causality and omitted variable bias by exploiting exogenous variation in inherited wealth generated by the repeal of the Swedish inheritance tax. Second, it analyzes responses in health outcomes through the use of administrative registers. The results show that increased wealth ...

Behavioral Responses and Welfare Reform: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

July 2017 IZA DP No. 10905 Behavioral Responses and Welfare Reform: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment* Recent studies have used a distributional analysis of welfare reform experiments suggesting that some individuals reduce hours in order to opt into welfare, an example of behavioralinduced participation. Using data on Connecticut’s Jobs First experiment, we find no evidence of behavioral-i...