Taxing the 1 per cent: Public Opinion vs Public Policy

IF 4.6 1区 社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE British Journal of Political Science Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI:10.1017/s000712342300039x
Ruben Mathisen
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Recent studies suggest that public policy in established democracies mainly caters to the interests of the rich and ignores the average citizen when their preferences diverge. I argue that high-income taxation has become a clear illustration of this pattern, and I test the proposition on a least likely case: Norway. I asked Norwegians to design their preferred tax rate structure and matched their answers with registry data on what people at different incomes actually pay in tax. I find that within the top 1 per cent, tax rates are far below (by as much as 23 percentage points) where citizens want them to be. A follow-up survey showed that this divergence is entirely driven by capital incomes being taxed too low. My results suggest that even in a reasonably egalitarian society like Norway, the rich get away with paying considerably less in tax than what people deem fair.
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对1%征税:民意与公共政策
最近的研究表明,老牌民主国家的公共政策主要迎合富人的利益,而当普通公民的偏好出现分歧时,就会忽视他们。我认为高收入税收已经成为这种模式的一个明确例证,我在一个最不可能的案例中检验了这一命题:挪威。我请挪威人设计他们喜欢的税率结构,并将他们的答案与不同收入人群实际缴纳税款的登记数据相匹配。我发现,在最富有的1%中,税率远低于公民希望的水平(高达23个百分点)。一项后续调查显示,这种差异完全是由资本收入税率过低造成的。我的研究结果表明,即使在挪威这样一个相当平等的社会中,富人缴纳的税款也远低于人们认为公平的水平。
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期刊介绍: The British Journal of Political Science is a broadly based journal aiming to cover developments across a wide range of countries and specialisms. Contributions are drawn from all fields of political science (including political theory, political behaviour, public policy and international relations), and articles from scholars in related disciplines (sociology, social psychology, economics and philosophy) appear frequently. With a reputation established over nearly 40 years of publication, the British Journal of Political Science is widely recognised as one of the premier journals in its field.
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