Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/69350 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7127
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper studies the fiscal incidence of a fiscal reform consisting of a reduction in employers' social insurance contributions financed by a tax based on the value added. In a closed economy with two sectors calibrated thanks to the French National Accounts, a social VAT leads to a rise in labor incomes which is usually higher than the rise of capital incomes. In case of perfect intersector mobility of production factors, a reduction in 1 percentage point of the social contributions leads to a rise in net labor incomes which is 0:51 to 0:66 percentage point higher than the rise of the interest rate. For a low intersector mobility the gains of workers, even though unequally distributed, remain higher than that of capitalists. In an open economy when the international capital mobility is sufficiently high, workers are more inclined to suffer from the reform.
Subjects: 
fiscal incidence
social contribution
payroll tax
tax on value added
social VAT
JEL: 
J38
H22
H61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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