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Tax Reforms and Labor Force Participation of Married Women
Economics Students Association seminar
The presentation is based on “To Work or Not to Work: Did Tax Reforms Affect Labor Force Participation of Secondary Earners?” by:
Michael Bar and Oksana Leukhina
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The Tax Panic
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Questions
• How did taxes reforms affect the households’ decisions to participate in the labor market?
• Is the U.S. tax system progressive?
• What are the effects of various tax laws on household’s behavior?
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Plan
1. Visualizing tax laws (using TAXSIM)
2. Case study: Earned Income Tax Credit
3. New methodology for studying the effects of taxes
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Federal Income Taxes in 2006
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Example (singles)
• Suppose that your taxable income in 2006 was $70,000. How much federal income tax should you pay?
058,14$sum
)650,30000,70%(25
)550,7650,30%(15
)550,7%(10
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Major Tax Reforms in the Federal Income Tax Code
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Major Tax Reforms in the Federal Income Tax Code
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Taxes Are More Complicated Than That
• Federal Income Tax
• FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax):O Social Security: 6.2% up to a limit of $94,200O Medicare 1.45%
• State Taxes
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Visualizing FICA Taxes
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Visualizing the Federal Income Tax
• Much more complicated than FICA
• All sorts of deductions that depend on age, number of children, mortgage, etc.)
• Need to look at actual returns to see how much people paid – TAXSIM (Tax Simulator).
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TAXSIM http://www.nber.org/~taxsim/
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Computing Tax Returns With TAXSIM
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Using TAXSIM to Visualize the Federal Income Taxes
Effects of Earned Income
Tax Credit
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Earned Income Tax Credit
• Wage subsidy for low-income workers.
• EITC is the largest poverty reduction program in the United States
• EITC enjoys broad bipartisan support.
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Earned Income Tax Credit
REAL FEDERAL SPENDING ON THE EITC, CHILD CREDIT, AND WELFARE (AFDC/TANF), FY 1976-2010
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Notes: "AFDC" = Aid to Families with Dependent Children; "TANF" = Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. EITC and CTC aggregate amounts include both outlays and receipts. Sources: FY 2000-2006 U.S. Budgets and IRS Statistics on Income data.
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EITC Parameters
Earned Income Tax Credit for 2007(Married filing jointly)
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EITC Incentives for Married Couples
Husband’s Income
Wife’s Income
Total Federal Tax Liability (2007)
Average Tax Rate on Wife’s Income
$20,000 0 - 4,027.34 ------
$20,000 $20,000 1,572.5 28%
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Comparison to a Single Earner
Single Earner’s incomeTotal Federal Tax Liability (2007)
$100,000$19,660.75
(Or 19.66% of income)
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New Methodology: Combining TAXSIM With an Economic Model• Write down an economic model with many married
couples, that earn income and make joint participation decisions.
• File taxes for all the couples in the model, and let the couples choose who goes to work (husband, wife, both).
• Change the tax laws (the year of the tax code) and see how the couples in the model respond to changes in taxes.
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Filing tax Returns for Many Couples
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Effects of Taxes on Participation of Married Couples
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Effect of EITC Reforms on Participation
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Summary
• It is possible to combine the realistic tax laws with economic models (using TAXSIM).
• Taxes in the U.S. changed a lot, but these changes had little effect on the total Labor Force Participation of married couples.
• Our results suggest that the EITC might have decreased the labor force participation of wives married to low-earning husbands.