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Is the Maximum Tax on Earned Income Effective?

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  • Lawrence B. Lindsey

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The Tax Reform Act of 1969 included a provision intended to set at 50 percent the tax rate on all personal service income above the 50 percent bracket amount. The current law fails to meet this objective for the vast majority of these taxpayers. This paper explains why the current law is ineffective, simulates our current experience with the law using the National Bureau of Economic Research TAXSIM model, and considers options to the present law.

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  • Lawrence B. Lindsey, 1981. "Is the Maximum Tax on Earned Income Effective?," NBER Working Papers 0613, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    1. Lawrence Lindsey, 1983. "Alternatives to the Current Maximum Tax on Earned Income," NBER Chapters, in: Behavioral Simulation Methods in Tax Policy Analysis, pages 83-108, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Lawrence B. Lindsey, 1985. "Estimating the Revenue Maximizing Top Personal Tax Rate," NBER Working Papers 1761, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Alan J. Auerbach & Daniel R. Feenberg, 2000. "The Significance of Federal Taxes as Automatic Stabilizers," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 14(3), pages 37-56, Summer.
    4. Lawrence Lindsey, 1987. "Rates, Realizations, and Revenues of Capital Gains," NBER Chapters, in: Taxes and Capital Formation, pages 17-26, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    5. David E. Altig & Charles T. Carlstrom, 1995. "Marginal tax rates and income inequality: a quantitative-theoretic analysis," Working Papers (Old Series) 9508, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
    6. Lawrence B. Lindsey, 1987. "Capital Gains Rates, Realizations, and Revenues," NBER Chapters, in: The Effects of Taxation on Capital Accumulation, pages 69-100, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    7. Roger H. Gordon & Joel Slemrod, 1998. "Are "Real" Responses to Taxes Simply Income Shifting Between Corporate and Personal Tax Bases?," NBER Working Papers 6576, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    8. Lawrence B. Lindsey, 1985. "Taxpayer Behavior and the Distribution of the 1982 Tax Cut," NBER Working Papers 1760, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    9. Daniel R. Feenberg, 1982. "The Tax Treatment of Married Couples and the 1981 Tax Law," NBER Working Papers 0872, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    10. Nada Eissa, 1995. "Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Women: The Tax Reform Act of 1986 as a Natural Experiment," NBER Working Papers 5023, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    11. Lawrence B. Lindsey, 1986. "Individual Taxpayer Response to Tax Cuts 1982-1984 with Implications forthe Revenue Maximizing Tax Rate," NBER Working Papers 2069, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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