This paper uses a simple model of fiscal competition between local jurisdictions to analyse the impact of intergovernmental grants on the composition of public spending. We find that a higher degree of redistribution within a system of ʺfiscal equalisationʺ coincides with a smaller overall...

En el presente documento se analiza la relación entre desigualdad, elevada concentración del ingreso y tributación sobre las altas rentas en América Latina. Los objetivos de la publicación son, por un lado, promover la discusión sobre los instrumentos con que cuentan los países...

The workhorse model of optimal taxation strongly recommends tagging, but its use in policy is limited. I argue that this puzzle is a symptom of a more fundamental problem. Conventional theory neglects the diverse normative criteria with which, as extensive evidence has shown, most people...

In all countries that use the individual as the basic unit of taxation, tax policy makers must contend with the problem of spousal income splitting and the dilemma it poses for gender equality. On the one hand income splitting opens a back door to joint taxation of couples, with its troubling...

Taxes are compulsory, unrequited payments to general government. They are unreciprocated in the sense that benefits provided by government to taxpayers are not normally in proportion to their payments. This study is set out to is to investigate the effect of Tax Justice and the Informal Taxation...

In this paper I explain why designing a country's tax policy with the elasticity of taxpayers' choices of residency in mind, although a rational welfare-maximizing move by the state as a whole, and possibly even for its immobile as well as mobile constituents, is a policy that may not be...

The paper searches literature for the treatment of "Tax Justice" or "justice of taxation" and finds that there is not much work done so far. In turn, it develops some criteria and norms based on Catholic Social Teaching and argues, that it makes pragmatically more sense to remove injustice in...