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I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Public economics group. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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- Who were the top taxpayers in 1923?
- Trump won in counties that lost jobs to China and Mexico
- The Effect of Pension Income on Elderly Earnings: Evidence from Social Security and Full Population Data
- Why Retire When You Can Work? Hours are way up for elderly workers
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- Financial firms make large share of pass-through income
- Pass-through income and the top 1%
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Tag Archives: Tax Reform
Six Reasons to Study Capital Taxation
Here are four reasons from Emmanuel Saez: Capital income is about 25% of national income (labor income is 75%) but distribution of capital income is much more unequal than labor income. Capital income inequality is due to differences in savings behavior but also … Continue reading
A Corporate Tax Proposal from Larry Summers
From Larry Summers: The US should eliminate the distinction between repatriated and unrepatriated foreign corporate profits for US companies and tax all foreign income (after allowance for taxes paid to other governments) at a fixed rate well below the current … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital Taxation, Corporate Taxes, Foreign Profits, inequality, Investment, larry summers, Profits, Repatriation, Tax Reform, Taxes
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Taxation and the Allocation of Talent
Ben Lockwood, Charles Nathanson and Glen Weyl have a paper on taxation and the allocation of talent that can justify progressive taxation strictly on efficiency grounds based on the following idea. “Low taxes encourage smart students to go into lucrative, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Lockwood, Charles Nathanson, Glen Weyl, inequality, Middle Class, Progressive Taxation, Tax Reform, Taxes
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Burying Supply-Side Once and for All by Neera Tanden
Neera Tanden has an interesting article in Democracy Journal on supply side economics. Supply-side economics assumes that lower tax rates boost economic growth by giving people incentives to work, save, and invest more. A critical tenet of this theory is … Continue reading
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Tagged CAP, inequality, Middle Class, Neera Tanden, supply side, Tax Cuts for Whom, Tax Reform, Taxes
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Who Gets Tax Breaks? Tax Expenditures and Credits by Income Group
From Dylan Matthews: The CBO is out with a big new report on who gets what out of tax expenditures, the deduction, credits, and exclusions that have grown to cost the federal government hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Here’s the … Continue reading
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Tagged Dylan Matthews, Tax Expenditures, Tax Reform, Taxes, wonkblog
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Tax Earnings Where Products Are Sold
From Alan Auerbach on corporate taxes: More than a century old, our corporate tax is showing its age. To modernize it, the basic challenge is to implement a corporate tax that is fair and provides sufficient revenue while making the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Auerbach, Corporate Taxes, Destination, Tax, Tax Reform
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A Modern Corporate Tax
Here’s a proposal for a modern corporate tax from Alan Auerbach: This paper proposes two reforms to the U.S. corporate tax system: first, an immediate deduction for all investments that would replace the current system of depreciation allowances, and second, … Continue reading
The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective
From Facundo Alvaredo, Anthony B. Atkinson, Thomas Piketty, and Emmanuel Saez: The top 1 percent income share has more than doubled in the United States over the last thirty years, drawing much public attention in recent years. While other English speaking … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Atkinson, Emmanuel Saez, Facundo Alvaredo, inequality, Middle Class, Tax Reform, Thomas Piketty, top 1 percent
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Apple, Avoidance, and Corporate Tax Incidence
In all the discussion over Apple today, remember that if labor bears the corporate tax, then companies avoiding it may actually end up helping workers. In other words, if workers end up picking up the tab (because capital is mobile/companies … Continue reading
The Congress-Does-Nothing Deficit Reduction Plan
This David Kamin article on future tax revenues and bracket creep is worth reading. Here are a couple highlights: Because of some long-standing elements of our system as well as clever provisions in the Affordable Care Act, taxes will actually … Continue reading
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Tagged David Kamin, Healthcare, Obamacare, Richard Rubin, Spending, Tax Expenditure, Tax Reform, Taxes
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