Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75786 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 425
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We show the unique form that must be taken by a tax system based entirely on realization accounting to implement a uniform capital income tax, or, equivalently, a uniform wealth tax. This system combines elements of an accrual based capital income tax and a traditional cash flow tax, having many of the attributes of the latter while still imposing a tax burden on marginal capital income. Like the traditional cash flow tax, this system may be integrated with a tax on labor income. We also show how such a tax can be supplemented with an optional accounting for a segregated subset of actively traded securities, subjected separately to mark-to-market taxation at the uniform capital income tax rate, to permit a fully graduated tax system applicable to labor income.
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Working Paper
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