
handle: 10419/61008
Recent microeconometric studies of taxpayers’ responsiveness to taxation have shown that intensive margin labor supply and earnings elasticities typically are modest and sometimes equal to zero. However, a common view is that long-run responses might still be large since micro-estimates are downward biased owing to optimization frictions. In this paper we estimate the taxable income elasticity at a very large kink point of the Swedish tax schedule using the bunching method. During the period of study the change in the log net-of-tax rate reached a maximum value of 45.6%. Interestingly, we obtain a precise elasticity estimate of zero for wage earners at this large kink. The size of the kink allows us to derive tighter bounds on the long-run elasticity than previous studies. If wage earners on average tolerate 1% of their disposable income in optimization costs, the upper bound on the long-run taxable income elasticity is 0.39. We also evaluate the performance of the bunching estimator by performing Monte Carlo simulations.
ddc:330, H24, J22, taxable income, Steuerwirkung, bunching; taxable income; bounds; optimization frictions, bunching, taxable income, bounds, optimization frictions, Einkommenselastizität, Einkommensteuer, Optimale Besteuerung, optimization frictions, H21, bounds, bunching, Arbeitsangebot, Schätzung, Schweden, jel: jel:H42, jel: jel:H21, jel: jel:H24, jel: jel:J22
ddc:330, H24, J22, taxable income, Steuerwirkung, bunching; taxable income; bounds; optimization frictions, bunching, taxable income, bounds, optimization frictions, Einkommenselastizität, Einkommensteuer, Optimale Besteuerung, optimization frictions, H21, bounds, bunching, Arbeitsangebot, Schätzung, Schweden, jel: jel:H42, jel: jel:H21, jel: jel:H24, jel: jel:J22
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