Optimal Taxation of Elderly Care Services

Masatoshi Yoshida and Koichi Yuki

The Japanese Economic Review, 2004, vol. 55, issue 1, 86-100

Abstract: This paper explores optimal taxation of market purchases of an elderly care service, which can also be produced in the home. Home production cannot be taxed. If children discount parents’ utility relative to their own utilities, an intergenerational externality arises in the family. When home production of the service is significant, the optimal tax rate on market purchases should be: (i) high, if the service and leisure are complements and the externality is strong, (ii) low, if they are substitutes, irrespective of the degree of the externality.

Date: 2004
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