Relocation of the Rich : Migration in Response to Top Tax Rate Changes from Spanish Reforms

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Agrawal, David R.
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Foremny, Dirk
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Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)
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2018
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https://ddd.uab.cat/record/201406
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urn:oai:ddd.uab.cat:201406
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Recent Spanish tax reform granted regions the authority to set income tax rates, resulting in substantial tax di erentials. We use individual-level information from Social Security records over a period of one decade. Conditional on moving, taxes have a significant effect on location choice. A one percent increase in the net of tax rate for a region relative to others increases the probability of moving to that region by 1.7 percentage points. Focusing on the stock of top-taxpayers, we estimate an elasticity of the number of top taxpayers with respect to net-of-tax rates of 0.85. Using this elasticity, a theoretical model implies that the mechanical increase in tax revenue due to higher tax rates is larger than the loss in tax revenue from the out-flow of migration.
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application/pdf
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eng
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Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)
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Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP). Documents de treball de la Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) ;
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open access
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Domicili fiscal
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Impostos sobre la renda
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Comunitats autònomes
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Espanya
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Tax Domicile
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Income tax
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Autonomous communities
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Spain
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Relocation of the Rich : Migration in Response to Top Tax Rate Changes from Spanish Reforms
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Working paper


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