Antoine Ferey

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amse seminar

Antoine Ferey

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Sufficient Statistics for Nonlinear Tax Systems with General Across-Income Heterogeneity
Co-écrit avec
Benjamin B. Lockwood and Dmitry Taubinsky
Lieu

IBD Amphi

Îlot Bernard du Bois - Amphithéâtre

AMU - AMSE
5-9 boulevard Maurice Bourdet
13001 Marseille

Date(s)
Lundi 26 mai 2025| 11:30 - 12:45
Contact(s)

Thomas Seegmuller : thomas.seegmuller[at]univ-amu.fr

Résumé

This paper provides empirically implementable sufficient statistics formulas for optimal nonlinear tax systems in the presence of  across-income heterogeneity in preferences, inheritances, income-shifting capabilities, and other sources. We characterize optimal smooth tax systems on income and savings (or other commodities), as well as simpler tax systems. We use familiar elasticity concepts and a novel sufficient statistic for heterogeneity correlated with earnings ability: the difference between  across-income variation in savings and the causal effect of income on savings. We apply these formulas to the United States and find that the optimal savings tax is mostly positive and progressive.

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Ce séminaire AMSE sera donné par le lauréat du prix de thèse Carine Nourry.