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Corporate Taxation and the Distribution of Income

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  • James R. Hines Jr.

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Higher corporate taxes reduce corporate business operations, replacing them with operations by noncorporate businesses that are risky and have undiversified ownership. This shift contributes to income dispersion, with effects so large that higher corporate taxes can increase income inequality even when the corporate tax burden falls entirely on capital owned disproportionately by the rich. Estimates suggest that the riskiness of U.S. noncorporate business increases by 12.3% the aggregate income of the top one percent, and that income dispersion created by a higher U.S. corporate tax rate offsets more than half of the distributional effects of reducing average returns to capital.

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  • James R. Hines Jr., 2020. "Corporate Taxation and the Distribution of Income," NBER Working Papers 27939, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    1. David R. Agrawal & Ronald B. Davies & Sara LaLumia & Nadine Riedel & Kimberley Scharf, 2021. "A snapshot of public finance research from immediately prior to the pandemic: IIPF 2020," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 28(5), pages 1276-1297, October.
    2. Tommaso Faccio & Roberto Iacono, 2022. "Corporate Income Taxation and Inequality: Review and Discussion of Issues Raised in The triumph of injustice—How the rich dodge taxes and how to make them pay (2019)," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 68(3), pages 819-829, September.
    3. He, Fan & Zeng, Xin & Xue, Jingwen & Xu, Jianbin, 2024. "The hidden cost of corporate tax cuts: Evidence from worker health in China," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
    4. Delis, Manthos & Galariotis, Emilios & Iosifidi, Maria, 2023. "Corporate Taxes and Economic Inequality: A Credit Channel," MPRA Paper 116396, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Tosun, Mehmet S. & Watson, Ethan D. & Yildiz, Serhat, 2022. "The Effect of Firm-Level Investment on Inequality and Poverty around the World," IZA Discussion Papers 15680, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • H22 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Incidence
    • H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies

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