Taxation, Bequests, and Short and Long Run Timber Supplies: An Overlapping Generations Problem

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Gregroy Amacher (gamacher@vt.edu), Richard Brazee, Erkki Koskela and Markku Ollikainen

Environmental & Resource Economics, 1999, vol. 13, issue 3, pages 269-288

Abstract: This paper uses an overlapping generations model with one-sided altruism to study the effects of several forest taxes that target bequests and affect timber supply. Unlike previous work, we investigate bequests and timber supply in both the short and long run when bequests are costly (e.g., taxed). The landowner's problem is examined in the short run, while the government's problem is examined in the long run assuming the existence of a steady state. We also consider taxes targeting harvests, growth, savings and bequests. Several new results are established concerning the interactions of taxes that might be used by a government to alter short and long run forest capital stocks: (i) the presence of a forest bequest tax affects the neutrality of harvest tax in both the short and long run, (ii) in the long run the bequest tax decreases bequests and timber supplies. When the bequest tax is not present, the capital income tax is neutral with respect to bequest and timber supply, while the harvest tax is neutral only if forest productivity is also not taxed. Finally, (iii) in the short run, the substitution and total effects of taxes in landowner decisions generally depend on the presence of the bequest tax. The results have implications for Pigouvian tax design and second best tax choice. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1999

Keywords: forest bequests; timber supply; overlapping generations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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