Who benefits from tax-advantaged employee benefits?
Subtitle: evidence from university parking
By: Michael D. Grubb, Paul Oyer.
Contributors: Oyer, Paul E. 1963-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 14062; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 14062.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "We use university parking permits to study how firms and employees split the value of employee benefit tax subsidies.  Starting in 1998, the IRS allowed employees to pay for parking passes with pre-tax income.  This subsidized the parking pass purchases of faculty and staff, but did not affect students.  We show that the typical university raised its parking rates by 8-10% extra when it implemented a pre-tax payment system, but that this increase was the same for those affected by the tax change and those that were not affected.  We conclude that university employees captured much of the new tax benefit, that faculty and staff that purchase permits benefited relative to those that do not purchase permits, and that students that purchase permits were made worse off relative to those that do not buy permits.  We discuss what these results suggest about universities' objectives in setting their parking prices and about the demand for university parking"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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