Households may choose to save less of their disposable income and maintain their current level of consumption especially if they consider the higher tax payments to be temporary.
Households can decide to save less of their income and keep consumption up if the income tax payments aren't permanent.
mnli hypothesis: Households can decide to save less of their income and keep consumption up if the income tax payments aren't permanent. premise: Households may choose to save less of their disposable income and maintain their current level of consumption especially if they consider the higher tax payments to be temporary.