Taxing High-Income Earners: Tax Avoidance and Mobility
XREAP WP No. 2017-06
39 Pages Posted: 8 Nov 2017
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Taxing High-Income Earners: Tax Avoidance and Mobility
Date Written: November 6, 2017
Abstract
The taxation of high-income earners is of importance to every country and is the subject of a considerable amount of recent academic research. Such high-income earners contribute substantial amounts of tax and generate significant positive spillovers, but are also highly mobile: a 1% increase in the top marginal income tax rate increases out-migrations by around 1.5 to 3%. We review research into taxation of high-income earners to provide a synthesis of existing theoretical and empirical understanding. We offer various avenues for potential future theoretical and empirical research.
Keywords: High-Income Earners, Mobility, Tax Avoidance
JEL Classification: H26, H31, K34, K42
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