Generalized Cash Flow Taxation

Alan Auerbach and David F. Bradford

No 8122, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We show the unique form that must be taken by a tax system based entirely on realization accounting to implement a uniform capital income tax, or, equivalently, a uniform wealth tax. This system combines elements of an accrual based capital income tax and a traditional cash flow tax, having many of the attributes of the latter while still imposing a tax burden on marginal capital income. Like the traditional cash flow tax, this system may be integrated with a tax on labor income. We also show how such a tax can be supplemented with an optional accounting for a segregated subset of actively traded securities, subjected separately to mark-to-market taxation at the uniform capital income tax rate, to permit a fully graduated tax system applicable to labor income.

JEL-codes: H24 G11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-02
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