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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 04/07/2025
Fewer reporting requirements had large negative effects on French wealth tax compliance, w/ 35% of wealth taxpayers missing in affected brackets & evading 10% of payments each year. @bgarbinti.bsky.social @s-stantcheva.bsky.social @gabrielzucman.bsky.social et al. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
Graph that shows bunching at the €2.57 million 2013 3rd tax bracket simplification threshold.

Many countries are considering introducing or reforming their wealth tax policies. This column studies the effects of a French wealth tax reform, which reduced reporting requirements, on taxpayer behaviour. The scaling back of reporting requirements had large negative effects on tax compliance, with 35% of wealth taxpayers missing in affected brackets and evading 10% of their total wealth tax payments each year. The findings indicate that taxpayers are more likely to under-report the value of less easily verifiable assets such as housing, whereas financial assets are more transparent and thus harder to manipulate.
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