Is there a majority to support a capital tax cut?

François Gourio

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2009, vol. 33, issue 6, pages 1278-1295

Abstract: A capital income tax cut must in general be financed by increasing other taxes, and thus will have redistributive effects. This paper studies analytically the redistribution implied by a capital income tax cut in the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans neoclassical growth model when agents differ in wealth and human capital and markets are frictionless. A few parameters affect the efficiency costs and redistributive benefits of capital taxation, and determine the set of agents who are in favor of a capital income tax cut. For plausible parameter values, a majority would lose from the tax cut, i.e. high capital taxes may be politically sustainable.

Keywords: Heterogeneity; Redistribution; Capital; taxation; Optimal; taxation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

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