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How do I change my social security number to a tax ID number? 

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When the social security tax is not too high, social security increases per capita income growth and tends to enhance welfare.
The pattern of intergenerational transfers itself, however, is shown to change with the social security tax rate.
We show, using a very large database from the State of Texas, that exact matches using combinations A, D, G, and N produce a rate of matches comparable to 9-Digit Social Security Number.
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John Bailey Jones, Yue Li 
32 Citations
We find that in a long-run stationary environment, replacing the taxation of Social Security benefits with a revenue-equivalent change in the payroll tax would increase labor supply, consumption, and welfare.
In terms of convenience, identification are superior since a user does not have to input his/her ID number.
This article is the first to address the issue of whether it is unethical to evade the Social Security tax.
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Hung-Ju Chen, I-Hsiang Fang 
01 May 2013-Economic Modelling
19 Citations
Fertility is an important determinant to the tax burden of social security since it affects the quantity and quality of future tax payers.
The result shows that taxpayers awareness has a full mediating role in the relationship between expediency of tax id number, service quality, and taxpayers compliance.
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Hsun Chu, Chu-Chuan Cheng 
01 Aug 2019-Economic Modelling
7 Citations
Our numerical analysis also shows that the welfare cost of the social security tax increases with people's degree of myopia.
These characteristics are highly suitable for ID number applications.
Since the efficiency costs of distortionary taxation rise as roughly the square of the tax rate, the Social Security payroll tax may be more than doubling the dead weight loss of labor income taxation. The findings of this paper suggest that there may be very significant efficiency gains available from tightening the connection between marginal Social Security taxes paid and marginal Social Security benefits received.