Tax progressivity and top incomes

evidence from tax reforms?

We study the link between tax progressivity and top income shares. Using variation from large-scale Western tax reforms in the 1980s and 1990s and the novel synthetic control method, we find large and lasting boosting impacts on top income shares from the progressivity reductions. Effects are larges...

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Main Author:	Rubolino, Enrico
Format:	Paper
Language:	English
Place of publication:	Stockholm, Sweden Research Institute of Industrial Economics 2017
Data of publication:	2017
Series:	IFN working paper
Subjects:	Einkommensverteilung Neuseeland Australien Westliche Staaten Steuerprogression Schätzung Norwegen Steuerreform
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	ECONIS Database information Databases - DBIS