Relocation of the rich: Migration in response to top tax rate changes from spanish reforms
A Spanish reform granted regions the authority to set income tax rates, resulting in substantial tax differentials. Using administrative data, conditional on moving, taxes have a significant effect on location choice. A one percent increase in the net-of-tax rate for a region relative to others incr...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositorio: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:2445/134620 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/134620 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Riquesa Distribució (Teoria econòmica) Política migratòria Administració fiscal Wealth Distribution (Economic theory) Migration policy Tax administration and procedure |
| Sumario: | A Spanish reform granted regions the authority to set income tax rates, resulting in substantial tax differentials. Using administrative data, conditional on moving, taxes have a significant effect on location choice. A one percent increase in the net-of-tax rate for a region relative to others increases the probability of moving to that region by 1.7 percentage points. We estimate an elasticity of the number of top taxpayers with respect to net-of-tax rates of 0.85. The mechanical increase in tax revenue due to higher tax rates is larger than the loss in tax revenue from the net out-flow of migration. |
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