The Growth and Welfare Effects of Deficit‐Financed Dividend Tax Cuts

Pietro Peretto

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2011, vol. 43, issue 5, 835-869

Abstract: I develop a tractable growth model that allows me to study analytically transition dynamics and welfare in response to a deficit‐financed cut of the tax rate on distributed dividends. I then carry out a quantitative assessment of the Job Growth and Taxpayer Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA) of 2003. I find that the Act produces lower steady‐state growth despite the fact that the economy’s saving and employment ratios rise. Most importantly, it produces a welfare loss of 19.34% of annual consumption per capita—a substantial effect driven by the fact that the steady‐state growth rate falls from 2% to 1.08%.

Date: 2011
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