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- Title
How do taxpayers respond to a large kink? Evidence on earnings and deduction behavior from Austria.
- Authors
Paetzold, Joerg
- Abstract
This paper contributes to recent literature examining the importance of the different channels through which taxable income responses occur. Using bunching techniques and exploiting a large kink point where marginal tax rates increase by as much as 38 percentage points, I first recover modest gross earnings responses of Austrian employees. Next, I demonstrate that when accounting for deduction behavior, the additional mass of wage earners at the kink increases by around 50%. I show direct evidence of wage earners targeting the kink with their deduction claiming. Finally, I contrast the responses of wage earners with those of self-employed taxpayers, and find that access to different tax adjustment channels corresponds with different adjustment behavior. In sum, my results suggest that distinguishing between earnings and deduction responses matters even for taxpayers with only limited possibilities to shelter taxable income.
- Subjects
AUSTRIA; INCOME tax deductions; TAX rates; TAX expenditures; WAGE taxation; TAXATION of freelance work; TAX planning
- Publication
International Tax & Public Finance, 2019, Vol 26, Issue 1, p167
- ISSN
0927-5940
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10797-018-9493-4