Variable Earnings and Nonlinear Taxation
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NBER Working Paper No. 1163 (Also Reprint No. r0965)
Issued in 1988
NBER Program(s): PE
We explore the interaction between two facts. The first is that income is variable; the second is that the tax and transfer system transforms before tax income into after tax income in highly non-linear ways. The effect is to penalize (and reward) income variability in a manner which is both substantial and capricious.
Published: Moffitt, Robert and Michael Rothschild. "Variable Earnings and Nonlinear Taxation," Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 22, No. 3, Summer 1987, pp. 405- 421.
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