Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland. Brülhart, M., Gruber, J., Krapf, M., & Schmidheiny, K. .
Paper abstract bibtex We study how reported wealth responds to changes in wealth tax rates. Exploiting rich intra-national variation in Switzerland, the country with the highest revenue share of annual wealth taxation in the OECD, we find that a 1 percentage point drop in the wealth tax rate raises reported wealth by at least 43% after 6 years. Administrative tax records of two cantons with quasi- randomly assigned differential tax reforms suggest that 24% of the effect arise from taxpayer mobility and 20% from house price capitalization. Savings responses appear unable to explain more than a small fraction of the remainder, suggesting sizable evasion responses in this setting with no third-party reporting of financial wealth.
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title = {Behavioral {{Responses}} to {{Wealth Taxes}}: {{Evidence}} from {{Switzerland}}},
author = {Brülhart, Marius and Gruber, Jonathan and Krapf, Matthias and Schmidheiny, Kurt},
date = {2019},
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abstract = {We study how reported wealth responds to changes in wealth tax rates. Exploiting rich intra-national variation in Switzerland, the country with the highest revenue share of annual wealth taxation in the OECD, we find that a 1 percentage point drop in the wealth tax rate raises reported wealth by at least 43\% after 6 years. Administrative tax records of two cantons with quasi- randomly assigned differential tax reforms suggest that 24\% of the effect arise from taxpayer mobility and 20\% from house price capitalization. Savings responses appear unable to explain more than a small fraction of the remainder, suggesting sizable evasion responses in this setting with no third-party reporting of financial wealth.},
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