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understand why tax systems look the way they look. Finally, we exploit a database of reforms in labour taxation in the European …
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This paper examines the effective tax rates faced by low income working families. The effective tax rate (ETR) is a generic concept which encompasses both tax payable and also loss of benefits as income rises.
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The present study provides estimates of the Effective Marginal Tax Rates (EMTRs) for a sample of 17 OECD countries and 11 manufacturing sectors in a single framework encompassing capital, labour and energy taxes. Our cross-country/cross-sector approach allows us comparing the incentives provided...
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This paper considers the taxation of small business and entrepreneurial incomes in Poland. In both transition economies … and existing West European market economies, the efficient taxation of entrepreneurial incomes presents particular … to the taxation of entrepreneurs in transition economies. …
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. Such insurance and redistribution can be achieved by progressive labor income taxes or taxation of capital income, or both …
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We examine the interaction between commodity taxes and parallel imports in a simple two-country model with imperfect competition. While governments determine non-cooperatively their commodity tax rate, the volume of parallel imports is determined endogenously by the retailing sector. We compare...
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This paper computes the optimal progressivity of the income tax code in a dynamic general equilibrium model with household heterogeneity in which uninsurable labour productivity risk gives rise to a nontrivial income and wealth distribution. A progressive tax system serves as a partial...
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specification of household time use widens the set of cases in which individual taxation is welfare-superior to joint taxation. …
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at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of the income distribution. This paper … applies the theory of optimal piecewise linear taxation to the issue of the taxation of top incomes. Our results suggest that …
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taxation is concerned, the most substantive recommendation of the Mirrlees Review is a move toward a system of consumption or … expenditure taxation, by exempting the "normal return to saving and taxing only "excess returns on the same tax schedule as labour … direction for reform is towards more progressive taxation of both labour earnings and capital income, although not necessarily …
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