Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/235374 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9004
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper studies the design of an optimal non linear inheritance taxation when individuals differ in wage as well as in their risks of both mortality and old-age dependance. We assume that the government cannot distinguish between bequests motives, that is whether bequests result from precautionary reasons or from pure joy of giving reasons. Instead, we assume that it only observes whether bequests are made early in life or late in life, and in the latter case, whether the donor is autonomous or not. The main result is that, under asymmetric information, in addition to labour income taxation, early bequests of the low-productivity agent should be distorted downward, that is, they should be taxed so as to relax incentive constraints.
Subjects: 
bequest taxation
long term care
utilitarianism
old-age dependency
non linear taxation
JEL: 
H21
H23
I14
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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