the core. Additional topics addressed include a range of dynamic issues, the unit of taxation, tax administration and …This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the … relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities …

. This new study, based on more than 20 million tax records over 10 years, examines the highest income earners in Ireland but … income and pay around 2/3 of all income tax. Unlike other OECD countries, the top 1% has not expanded its gross income share … progressive taxation has also reduced the top 1 per cent’s share of disposable income. This paper finds that income inequality …

The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) recently proposed an interest barrier to fight tax …

directed toward this sector are tax policies. Yet most economic analysis of the optimal tax treatment of charitable giving is … ad hoc, treating it as a subject unto itself. This article advances a different approach: integrating the tax treatment … of charitable giving into the optimal income tax framework that has been developed over the past half century. The …