A review of the effects of taxes on consumption and saving

Published on 24 April 2007

This draft paper forms part of the Mirrlees Review and was presented at the IFS Residential Conference 2007.

<p>This paper is intended to review what we know about how responsive consumption and savings choices are to tax incentives (interest rate changes).</p>

Authors

Matthew Wakefield

Matthew Wakefield

Research Associate University of Bologna

Matthew is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna focusing on consumption and savings choices and how policy affects them.

Orazio Attanasio

Orazio Attanasio

CPP Co-Director

Orazio is an International Research Fellow at the IFS, a Professor at Yale and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.