Estate taxation with intended and accidental bequests

Article Abstract:

The properties of optimal estate tax, and also altruistic type and accidental type of bequest motives, are being examined. The estate tax, is said to be highly sensitive to the relative importance of the two bequest motives.

United States, Evaluation, Estate tax, Estate taxes

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Simulating the transmission of wealth inequality via bequests

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Research is presented concerning the development of a dynamic 88-period overlapping generations model to determine the influence of bequests on the transmission of wealth inequality in the US.

Public Finance Activities, Inheritance Taxes, Models, Wealth, Gift tax, Tax and expenditure limitations, Inheritance tax

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Optimal income tax in the presence of status effect

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Research is presented describing the study of social status seeking in societies and the implications for introducing tax to counteract the financial pressures induced by the rich on the poor.

Economic aspects, Study and teaching, Tax research, Social status

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