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Economics

W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Taxation

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Employee Benefits And Tax Reform, Stephen A. Woodbury Jul 1996

Employee Benefits And Tax Reform, Stephen A. Woodbury

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

The current tax treatment of pensions and health insurance in the United States is a hybrid that lacks consistency under either an accrual income tax system or a consumption tax system. Under an accrual income tax, employer contributions to pension plans represent an addition to wealth that would be taxed at the time they are made. The interest earned on pension contributions also represents an addition to wealth that would be taxed annually. When a worker retires, all applicable taxes would already have been paid on the benefit, and the flow of retirement income received by the worker would not …


The Tax Treatment Of Fringe Benefits, Stephen A. Woodbury, Wei-Jang Huang Jan 1991

The Tax Treatment Of Fringe Benefits, Stephen A. Woodbury, Wei-Jang Huang

Upjohn Press

Woodbury and Huang use econometric models to investigate how changes in the tax treatment of fringe benefits can be expected to influence the level of benefits and compensation provided by employers, federal revenues, and income inequality.


Tax Base Sharing: Simulations For Kalamazoo County, Timothy L. Hunt Jan 1987

Tax Base Sharing: Simulations For Kalamazoo County, Timothy L. Hunt

Upjohn Press

Uses historical data to simulate the effects of tax base sharing.