The Effects of Tax-Based Saving Incentives on Government Revenue and National Saving

Martin Feldstein

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1995, vol. 110, issue 2, 475-494

Abstract: This paper shows that previous analyses of IRA-type plans that seek to encourage household saving have miscalculated their effect on tax revenue and therefore on national saving by ignoring their favorable impact on corporate tax payments. Recognizing the important effects of IRA plans on corporate tax revenue changes previous conclusions about the revenue loss in a fundamental way. The revenue loss associated with IRAs either is much smaller than has generally been estimated or is actually a revenue gain.

Date: 1995
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