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Fiscal Federalism and the Role of the Income Tax
Gordon, Roger H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper rethinks the design of the income tax by assuming that the objective of the tax is not to redistribute from rich to poor but instead to provide some insurance to individuals against the uncertainties they face in their future earnings, a motivation for the tax proposed in Buchanan...
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Optimal Income Redistribution When Individual Welfare Depends Upon Relative Income
Boskin, Michael J. - 1976
The purpose of the present note is to explore the structure of optimal income taxation/redistribution in an economy …, of course, an additional incentive for income redistribution from wealthy to poor citizens is created and the logical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478985
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Optimal Income Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
importance in light of concerns about inequality, potential for misunderstanding, and prospects for advancement. Throughout, the …
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Concavity of Utility, Concavity of Welfare, and Redistribution of Income
Kaplow, Louis - 2003
The marginal social value of income redistribution is understood to depend on both the concavity of individuals … taxation and on normative inequality measurement, it seems to be accepted that the role of these two sources of concavity is … symmetric with regard to the social concern about inequality in the distribution of income. Direct examination of the question …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468707
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The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Intertemporal Income Shifting
Gorry, Aspen - 2018
Knowing the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is crucial for understanding the effects of taxation on taxpayer behavior and consequently on tax revenues. Previous research finds that high-income individuals are the most sensitive to tax policy changes. However, these individuals have more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453185
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Optimal Monetary Policy with Redistribution
La'O, Jennifer; Morrison, Wendy A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
sufficient statistic for labor income inequality. In a calibrated version of the model, countercyclical earnings inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072863
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Bunching and Taxing Multidimensional Skills
Boerma, Job; Tsyvinski, Aleh; Zimin, Alexander P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We characterize optimal policies in a multidimensional nonlinear taxation model with bunching. We develop an empirically relevant model with cognitive and manual skills, firm heterogeneity, and labor market sorting. The analysis of optimal policy is based on two main results. We first derive an...
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Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The philanthropic sector is highly consequential, particularly in the United States, and the most important policies 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421177
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Transfer Motives and Tax Policy
Kaplow, Louis - 1999
This paper considers the optimal tax treatment of voluntary transfers to individuals in a" framework that integrates redistributive income taxation and estate and gift taxation. Under this" formulation, redistributive considerations become secondary. The optimal tax treatment of" transfers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471814
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My Taxes are Too Darn High : Tax Protests as Revealed Preferences for Redistribution
Nathan, Brad C. - 2020
provides a unique opportunity to study preferences for redistribution via revealed preference. We study the motives driving tax …
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