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## Abstract
Based on a representative sample of consumer financial transaction data, this paper studies the consumption and savings response to a 2015 permanent increase in the marginal income tax of the high-income taxpayers. Using difference-in-differences regressions, controlling for individual and time fixed effects, we show robust results that the affected consumers experienced little change in their spending. The pattern is prevalent across consumer demographics and is found even among consumers who are sophisticated, have high levels of debt, or register little income changes. Furthermore, the tax increase financed fiscal redistribution leads to a long-lasting increase in the consumption of the lower-income population.
*This paper was accepted by Lukas Schmid, finance.*
**Funding:** The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from Social Science Research Thematic Grant in Singapore \[Future-Proofing Singapore: An Economic Approach MOE2019-SSRTG-024\].
**Supplemental Material:** The data files are available at <https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4823>.
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- Received:March 21, 2022
- Accepted:January 04, 2023
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The authors thank Piyush Gupta for his generosity for supporting academic research by providing access to DBS data; Lisa M. Andrew, Carla M. Camacho, and Ajit Singh for helpful discussion on the data and institutional details; and an anonymous referee, associate editor, and department editor (Lukas Schmid), Souphala Chomsisengphet, Ivan Png, David Reeb, Qin Yu, and seminar participants at National University of Singapore and Indian School of Business for insightful and constructive comments.
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