Economic historian at @LuEconHist: inequality, taxation & public policies. Member of @LFInvisible and adjunct-editor of @ihe_ehr
Mar 11, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
My paper on #taxevasion and #inequality in Spain is online! I estimate evasion in the Spanish income tax in the early 2000s (2001-04), with microdata from @IEF_ES. Here are some main points: (1/6)
Evasion in capital incomes was very high, especially for financial flows and at the top of the income distribution. The top ten percent of the taxpayers are estimated to report 50-60% of their real incomes of this sort. (2/6)