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I'm an Economics Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley focusing on public finance topics at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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- It Takes a Regime Shift: Recent Developments in Japan through the Lens of the Great Depression
- The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
- Worker Flows Over the Business Cycle: the Role of Firm Quality
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Tag Archives: Corporate Income Tax
The Growing Burden of Payroll Taxes
Here’s a column on reforming the payroll tax that I wrote in NYTimes Economix today: Payroll taxes and corporate income taxes accounted for an equal share of federal tax revenue in 1969. By 2009, payroll taxes generated more than six times as much … Continue reading
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Tagged Baumol's cost, Corporate Income Tax, debt, Disability Insurance, Economic Policy, Fiscal Cliff, Healthcare, income taxes, inequality, Jobs, Medicare, Middle Class, NYTimes, Payroll tax, Progressivity, Revenue, skills, social insurance, social security, Stimulus, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, Taxes, technology
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Thoughts on the California/SF Tax Related Propositions for Tuesday
San Francisco – Proposition E: replaces SF payroll tax, which is based on the number of employees, to a gross receipts tax Favor: the payroll tax makes hiring people more expensive (since employers have to pay more taxes for every new … Continue reading
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Tagged Budget, California Budget, Corporate Income Tax, Payroll tax, Propositions, Taxes
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Volatility & state tax competition – are states relying too much on income and sales taxes?
Tyler Cowen has a post today about an interesting job market paper by Nathan Seegert of U Michigan. I haven’t had a chance to read it closely but from a superficial glance, it seems that states have been relying more on sales taxes … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Income Tax, Nathan Seegert, Sales tax, States, tax competition, Taxes
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Top economists on whether we should tax capital income less than labor income
Here are some responses from the public finance economists on the list: Acemoglu disagrees and says “Two things are ott confused. Continuously taxing savings is hugely inefficient. Taxing income at source even if it is capital income isn’t.” Auerbach strongly … Continue reading
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Tagged capital income taxation, Corporate Income Tax, income taxes, Labor, Taxes, top economists
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