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Pareto-Improving Bequest TaxationVolker GrossmannUniversity of Fribourg - Faculty of Economics and Social Science; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research) Panu PoutvaaraUniversity of Helsinki - Department of Economics; Helsinki Center of Economic Research (HECER); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research); Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) August 2006 CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1515 IZA Discussion Paper No. 2277 Abstract: Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show that in the presence of wage taxation, a small bequest tax may improve efficiency in an overlapping-generations framework with only intended bequests, by enhancing incentives of parents to invest in their children's education. This result holds even if the wage tax rate is held constant when introducing bequest taxation. We also calculate an optimal mix of wage and bequest taxes with alternative parameter combinations. In all cases, the optimal wage tax rate is clearly higher than the optimal bequest tax rate, but the latter is generally positive when the required government revenue in the economy is sufficiently high.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 35 Keywords: bequest taxation, bequests, education, Pareto improvement JEL Classification: H21, H31, D64, I21 working papers seriesDate posted: September 2, 2005Suggested CitationContact Information
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