Bequest Taxes and Accumulation of Household Wealth: U.S. - Japan Comparison

Thomas A. Barthold and Takatoshi Ito ()

No 3692, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: The objective of this paper is two-fold. First, we describe and compare the gift and bequest (estate) tax systems in the United States and Japan. Second, we use tax data to estimate the magnitude of intergenerational transfers. The magnitude of intergenerational transfers provides aid in determining how much outstanding wealth is obtained through intergenerational transfers, an issue of current controversy. In both Japan and the United States, a substantial portion of wealth, and especially of land in Japan, is bequeathed from one generation to the next.

Date: 1991-05
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Published as Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger, eds. The Political Economy of Tax Reform . Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Published as Bequest Taxes and Accumulation of Household Wealth: U.S.-Japan Comparison , Thomas A. Barthold, Takatoshi Ito. in The Political Economy of Tax Reform , Ito and Krueger. 1992

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