Distributional Effects on a Lifetime Basis

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Don Fullerton

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Diane Lim Rogers

Joint Economic Committee, Democratic Staff

Date Written: September 1994

Abstract

All government agencies charged with the responsibility of estimating distributional effects use annual income to classify households and one year's tax to characterize tax burdens. In this paper, we describe an alternative procedure to estimate lifetime tax burdens as proportions of lifetime income. To illustrate this model, we calculate lifetime effects of a uniform consumption tax and a wage tax. This kind of analysis can supplement existing annual analyses, since policymakers might want to insure both that current taxes reflect current ability to pay and that lifetime taxes reflect lifetime ability to pay.

Suggested Citation

Fullerton, Don and Lim Rogers, Diane, Distributional Effects on a Lifetime Basis (September 1994). NBER Working Paper No. w4862, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1811477

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