The purpose of the article is to study topical issues wealth taxation, which due established stable trends growth welfare market participants. This can be considered relevant and in demand based on steady trend enrichment that has taken hold world. a consequence accelerated pace economic progress aimed at improving well-being individuals. Modern society characterized by noticeable increase numb...

This paper examines how changes in state tax policy affect the number of federal estate tax returns filed in each state, utilizing data on federal estate tax return filings by state and wealth class for 18 years between 1965 and 1998. Controlling for stateand wealthclass specific fixed effects, we find that high state inheritance and estate taxes and sales taxes have statistically significant, ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore tax evasion and avoidance typologies with a view to understanding how they work and the implications for those who handle the wealth of others. Design/methodology/approach – American, Canadian and UK cases of tax avoidance and tax evasion are studied. Findings – Structuring transactions to avoid or minimize taxes is highly complex, and thus, fra...

I undertake a quantitative investigation into the short run effects of changes in the timing of taxes for model economies in which heterogeneous households face a borrowing constraint. A combination of the distortionary effects of non-lump-sum taxation and the liquidity effects arising from the asset market structure are found to imply large real effects from tax changes. For example, a tempora...

The recent literature on taxation and growth has stressed the optimality of a zero long-run taxation on all accumulative factors of production. For a given path of government spending, the optimal tax plan requires the government to build up a positive stock of public wealth in the short run in the long-run, government spending can be financed with the income accruing from the management of the...

For altruistic parents desiring to bequeath their wealth to their children, estate taxes can be costly in utility terms. The most straightforward way to reduce the tax burden is through inter vivos transfers. Taking full advantage of potential tax-free giving often requires that parents differentiate between children in the amounts transferred. This unequal giving contrasts sharply with the pre...

The United States witnessed an increase in pre-tax inequality, a rise the wealth-to-income ratio, and extraordinary top income inequality last four decades. However, wealth tax rates did not increase. To explain this, we build political economy model which people care about fairness approve of getting rich due to creating value rather than extracting from others. Simulations calibrations show ...

Influenced by a major tax reform in the beginning of the 1990s and by the exceptional boom in the stock market at the end of this decade the level as well as the inequality of the wealth of Swedish households have increased. The large baby-boom cohorts of the 1940s have been successful in accumulating wealth and they also have large claims on the public pension system. The implicit wealth in th...