Fiscal Demography: Age-related Redistribution of Consumption Taxation
Fiscal Demography: Age-related Redistribution of Consumption Taxation

Summary/Abstract: Taking into account the role of consumption taxes as the source of public revenues and the growing propensity to consume characteristic of the aging society, the paper focuses on an investigation of the conditions of the redistributive neutrality of consumption taxation in a situation when particular goods are marked by a different distribution of tax burden between consumer and seller. The study attempts to define the rule of diversification of consumption tax rates which will compensate for a different market effect (price elasticity) leading to a decrease in the wealth of consumers differentiated by age (age elasticity). The issue of the redistributive neutrality of consumption taxes is crucial because of lifetime differences in consumption. The aim of the paper is to construct a simple model of the redistributive effects induced by consumption taxes.

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