Zucman, and Piketty’s scholarly article, using the assumption that theīurden of the corporate income tax is spread across all non-housingĬapital (including small businesses and such), whereas the dotted line The solid orange line represents the tax rates estimated by Saez, Handled makes a big difference in terms of assessing what rate the
Historian Phil Magness, changing how corporate income taxes are Income distribution and a clearly higher rate than the bottom 80Īnd this is important because, as first noted by libertarian economic Percent, but a similar rate to the rest of the top 20 percent of the Prior to that, the Saez/Zucman data shows the top 400 taxpayers payingĪ lower overall tax rate than the top 0.01 percent or the top 0.1 This exercise because Congress enacted a big corporate tax cut in Treatment of the corporate income tax is particularly important for The whole thing is worth a read, but I'll just pick out one section in particular to reproduce here: The headline fact rests on a bunch of assumptions
The best presentation of the arguments against their interpretation of the data, in my opinion, is given in this article by Matthew Yglesias. This video, and the analysis from Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman which it is based on, is the subject of great debate.
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