
Joel Slemrod
- Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics
- Professor of Economics
- Chair, Department of Economics
- Faculty Director, Office of Tax Policy Research
Education
- PhD Harvard University 1980
- AB Princeton University 1973
Contact Information
Phone
(734) 936-3914Fax
(734) 936-8716Email
Room
R5396Joel Slemrod studies and writes about tax policy. In 1984-5 he was senior staff economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Canadian Department of Finance, the New Zealand Department of Treasury, the South African Ministry of Finance, the World Bank, the OECD, and several corporations. From 1992 to 1998, he was editor of the National Tax Journal. He is co-author with Leonard E. Burman of Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know, co-author with Christian Gillitzer of Tax Systems, published in 2014, and co-author with Jon Bakija of Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes, whose 5th edition will be published in 2017.
Featured Books
Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know, 2nd edition. Audiobook produced by Recorded Books, forthcoming, 2020.
Published Date
2020Source
Oxford University Press
Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate over Taxes, 5th edition
Published Date
2017Source
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Taxation and Migration
Published Date
2015Source
Kluwer Press
Tax Systems
Published Date
2014Source
MIT Press
978-0-262-02672-7
Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know
Published Date
2013Source
Oxford University Press
978-0-19-989027-9
Tax Reform Made Me Do It!
Published Date
2019Source
University of Chicago Press and NBER
Tax Policy and the Economy, Vol. 33
Moffitt, Robert
Tax Compliance and Enforcement: An Overview of New Research and Its Policy Implications
Published Date
2017Source
Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press
Pages:
81-102The Economics of Tax Policy
Auerbach, A, Smetters, K.
Tax Compliance and Enforcement: An Overview of New Research and Its Policy Implications
Published Date
2017Source
Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press
The Economics of Tax Policy
Auerbach, A, Smetters, K.
Household Response to the 2008 Tax Rebates: Survey Evidence and Aggregate Implications
Published Date
2010Source
NBER and University of Chicago Press
Pages:
69-110Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 24
Jeffrey R. Brown
Tax Compliance and Enforcement
Published Date
12/2019Source
Journal of Economic Literature
Volume:
57Issue:
4Pages:
904-54Distributional Implications of Joint Tax Evasion
Published Date
2018Source
Economic Journal
Volume:
10Issue:
111Pages:
1-30Do Firms Remit 85% of Tax Everywhere? New Evidence form India
Published Date
2018Source
Journal of Tax Administration
Volume:
4Issue:
1Pages:
24-37Is This Tax Reform, or Just Confusion?
Published Date
2018Source
Journal of Economic Perspectives
Volume:
32Issue:
4Pages:
73-96Public Tax-Return Disclosure
Published Date
8/2018Source
Journal of Accounting & Economics
Volume:
66Issue:
1Pages:
142-162Real Firms in Tax Systems
Published Date
2018Source
Finanzarchiv (Public Finance Analysis)
Volume:
74Issue:
1Pages:
131-143Tax Reform and Tax Experts
Published Date
2018Source
Journal of the American Tax Association
Volume:
40Issue:
2Pages:
83-88A Characteristics Approach to Optimal Taxation: Line Drawing and Tax-Driven Product Innovation
Published Date
04/2017Source
Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Volume:
119Issue:
2Pages:
240-267A Characteristics Approach to Optimal Taxation: Line Drawing and Tax-Driven Product Innovation
Published Date
2017Source
Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Volume:
119Issue:
2Pages:
240-267Does Credit-Card Information Reporting Improve Small-Business Tax Compliance?
Published Date
2017Source
Journal of Public Economics
Volume:
149Issue:
MayPages:
1-19Optimal Tax Administration
Published Date
2017Source
Journal of Public Economics
Volume:
152Issue:
AugustPages:
133-142The Behavioral Response to Housing Transfer Taxes: Evidence from a Notched Change in D.C. Policy
Published Date
2017Source
Journal of Urban Economics
Volume:
100Issue:
JulyPages:
137-153Caveats on the Research Use of Tax-Return Administration Data
Published Date
12/2016Source
National Tax Journal
Volume:
69Issue:
4Pages:
1003-1020Does Evasion Invalidate the Welfare Sufficiency of the ETI?
Published Date
10/2016Source
BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Advances Tier)
Volume:
16Issue:
4Pages:
Article 7Does Tax-Collection Invariance Hold? Evasion and Pass-Through of State Diesel Taxes
Published Date
05/2016Source
AEJ - Economic Policy
Volume:
8Issue:
2Pages:
251-286How Do Corporate Tax Bases Change When Corporate Tax Rates Change? With Implications for Tax Rate Elasticity of Corporate Taxable Income
Published Date
06/2016Source
International Tax and Public Finance
Volume:
23Issue:
3Pages:
401-433Using the "Smart Return" to Reduce Tax Evasion and Simplify Tax Filing
Published Date
2016Source
Tax Law Review
Volume:
69Issue:
4Pages:
459-484Sexing Up Tax Administration (lead article in inaugural issue)
Published Date
2015Source
Journal of Tax Administration
Volume:
1Issue:
1Pages:
6-22Subnational Competition: Tax Competition, Competition in Urban Areas, and Education Competition
Published Date
2015Source
National Tax Journal
Volume:
68Issue:
3SPages:
701-734Taxes on the Internet: Deterrence Effects of Public Disclosure in Norway
Published Date
2015Source
AEJ - Economic Policy
Volume:
7Issue:
1Pages:
36-67Taxpayer Search for Information: Implications for Rational Attention
Published Date
08/2015Source
AEJ - Economic Policy
Volume:
7Issue:
3Pages:
177-208Distinguishing the Role of Authority "In" and Authority "To"
Published Date
2014Source
Journal of Public Economics
Volume:
113Issue:
(2014)Pages:
32-42Insights from a Tax-Systems Perspective
Published Date
03/2014Source
CESifo Economic Papers
Volume:
60Issue:
1Pages:
1-31Expert and Public Attitudes towards Tax Policy: 2013, 1994, and 1934
Published Date
12/2013Source
National Tax Journal
Volume:
66Issue:
4Pages:
775-806The Effect of Public Disclosure on Reported Taxable Income: Evidence from Individuals and Corporations in Japan
Published Date
09/2013Source
National Tax Journal
Volume:
66Issue:
3Pages:
571-608Car Notches: Strategic Automaker Responses to Fuel Economy Policy
Published Date
12/2012Source
Journal of Public Economics
Volume:
96Issue:
11-12Pages:
981-999Check in the Mail or More in the Paycheck? Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on How It Is Delivered?
Published Date
08/2012Source
AEJ - Economic Policy
Volume:
4Issue:
3Pages:
216-250Evidence of the Invisible? Toward a Credibility Revolution in the Empirical Analysis of Tax Evasion and the Informal Economy
Published Date
02/2012Source
International Tax and Public Finance
Volume:
19Issue:
1Pages:
25-53The Elasticity of Taxable Income with Respect to Marginal Tax Rates: A Critical Review
Published Date
03/2012Source
Journal of Economic Literature
Volume:
50Issue:
1Pages:
3-50Understanding Multidimensional Tax Systems
Published Date
04/2012Source
International Tax and Public Finance
Volume:
19Issue:
2Pages:
237-267Financial Reporting, Tax, and Real Decisions: A Unifying Framework
Published Date
11/2011Source
International Tax and Public Finance
Volume:
18Issue:
4Pages:
461-494Tax Policy and the Missing Middle: Optimal Tax Remittances with Firm-Level Administrative Costs
Published Date
10/2011Source
Journal of Public Economics
Volume:
95Issue:
9-10Pages:
843-864Complexity in the Australian Tax and Transfer System
Published Date
2010Source
Melbourne Institute -- Australia's Future Tax and Transfer Policy Conference: Proceedings of a Conference
Pages:
257-270Location, (Real) Location, and Tax (Location): An Essay on the Place of Mobility in Optimal Taxation
Published Date
12/2010Source
National Tax Journal
Volume:
63Issue:
4Pages:
843-864Old George Orwell Got It Backward: Some Thoughts on Behavioral Tax Economics
Published Date
03/2010Source
Finanzarchiv (Public Finance Analysis)
Volume:
66Issue:
1Pages:
15-33Optimal Observability in a Linear Income Tax
Published Date
08/2010Source
Economics Letters
Volume:
108Issue:
2Pages:
105-108Taxation and the Financial Sector
Published Date
12/2010Source
National Tax Journal
Volume:
63Issue:
4Pages:
709-721The Distribution of Income Tax Noncompliance
Published Date
09/2010Source
National Tax Journal
Volume:
63Issue:
3Pages:
397-418The Fatal Toll of Driving to Drink: The Effect of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Evasion on Traffic Fatalities
Published Date
01/2010Source
Journal of Health Economics
Volume:
29Issue:
1Pages:
62-77Lessons for Tax Policy and the Great Recession
Published Date
09/2009Source
National Tax Journal
Volume:
62Issue:
3Pages:
387-397Tax Competition with Parasitic Tax Havens
Published Date
12/2009Source
Journal of Public Economics
Volume:
93Issue:
11-12Pages:
1261-1270