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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w21651 |
来源ID | Working Paper 21651 |
Business in the United States: Who Owns it and How Much Tax Do They Pay? | |
Michael Cooper; John McClelland; James Pearce; Richard Prisinzano; Joseph Sullivan; Danny Yagan; Owen Zidar; Eric Zwick | |
发表日期 | 2015-10-26 |
出版年 | 2015 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | “Pass-through” businesses like partnerships and S-corporations now generate over half of U.S. business income and account for much of the post-1980 rise in the top- 1% income share. We use administrative tax data from 2011 to identify pass-through business owners and estimate how much tax they pay. We present three findings. (1) Relative to traditional business income, pass-through business income is substantially more concentrated among high-earners. (2) Partnership ownership is opaque: 20% of the income goes to unclassifiable partners, and 15% of the income is earned in circularly owned partnerships. (3) The average federal income tax rate on U.S. pass- through business income is 19%|much lower than the average rate on traditional corporations. If pass-through activity had remained at 1980's low level, strong but straightforward assumptions imply that the 2011 average U.S. tax rate on total U.S. business income would have been 28% rather than 24%, and tax revenue would have been approximately $100 billion higher. |
主题 | Microeconomics ; Market Structure and Distribution ; Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment ; Fiscal Policy ; Public Economics ; Taxation ; Other ; Accounting, Marketing, and Personnel |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21651 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579326 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Michael Cooper,John McClelland,James Pearce,et al. Business in the United States: Who Owns it and How Much Tax Do They Pay?. 2015. |
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