Code for: "Bunching to Maximize Tax Credits: Evidence from Kinks in the U.S. Tax Schedule"
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jacob Mortenson, Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress; Andrew Whitten, Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Project Citation:
Mortenson, Jacob, and Whitten, Andrew. Code for: “Bunching to Maximize Tax Credits: Evidence from Kinks in the U.S. Tax Schedule.” Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-07-23. https://doi.org/10.3886/E110661V1
Project Description
Summary:
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We explore bunching at U.S. income tax kinks using a panel of 258 million tax returns from 1996 to 2014. We find bunching at seven kinks, with nearly all bunching occurring at kinks maximizing tax credits. In our sample period, the total number of bunchers increased at an 10.9 percent annualized growth rate, from 134,300 in 1996 to 866,600 in 2014. Approximately two-thirds of these bunchers locate at the unique point that maximizes refunds. Some taxpayers repeatedly bunch at this point, even in consecutive years when different tax kinks are refund-maximizing.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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Bunching;
tax credits;
income tax
JEL Classification:
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H23 Externalities • Redistributive Effects • Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
H24 Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
H26 Tax Evasion and Avoidance
H31 Household
J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
H23 Externalities • Redistributive Effects • Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
H24 Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
H26 Tax Evasion and Avoidance
H31 Household
J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Geographic Coverage:
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United States
Time Period(s):
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1996 – 2014
Data Type(s):
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program source code
Methodology
Data Source:
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IRS tax filings
Collection Mode(s):
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other
Unit(s) of Observation:
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Tax unit, year pair.
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