Abstract
This paper analyzes the impact of population aging on the composition of taxes. When the median voter is of working age, then population aging increases the demand for expenditure rather than income taxes in order to increase the tax burden on the retired population. International panel evidence supports this hypothesis, and this relationship holds more firmly in stronger democracies.
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