Do perceptions about how the government spends tax dollars affect the willingness to pay taxes? We designed a field … the share of property tax revenues that fund public schools and the share of property taxes that are redistributed to … willingness to pay taxes. We find that some perceptions about government spending have a significant effect on the probability of …

," we estimated tax multipliers using (i) a novel dataset on value-added taxes for 51 countries (21 industrial and 30 … companion paper first shows that these findings have important policy implications, given that the initial level of taxes varies …

and income taxes; (b) make wealth taxes less efficient relative to capital income taxes, at given rates of tax; (c) reduce …

Income taxes are typically set to raise revenues and redistribute income at the lowest possible efficiency costs, which … result from the distortions in individual behaviors that taxes entail. Individuals can respond along many margins, such as … labor supply, tax avoidance and evasion, and geographic mobility. But one margin that taxes may affect -- innovation -- is …

We find that sin good purchases are highly concentrated with 10% of households paying more than 80% of taxes on alcohol … sin taxes, are older, less educated, and lower income. Taxes on sugary beverages broaden the tax base but add to the … burdens of heavily taxed households. Efforts to increase sin taxes should consider the heavy burdens borne by few households …