It is common knowledge that mobile individuals are difficult to tax. Governments accommodate these difficulties by … granting special tax reductions to mobile individuals as it is expedient to get some tax revenue from these individuals rather … than to lose them as tax payers completely. Taxing according to expediency is, however, criticized by ordinary tax payers …

economic theory prescribes that the advertising volume can be optimally reduced by levying a tax on ads. However, making use of … counterproductive. In particular, we identify a number of situations in which ad-adverse consumers are negatively affected by the tax …, and we even show that the tax may lead to higher ad volumes. This unorthodox reaction to a tax may arise when consumers …

concerning the health effects of the consumption of fat and of healthy goods. The level of the fat tax is determined through … fraction of the fat tax proceeds is “earmarked” to reduce health insurance premiums while the remaining fraction finances a … welfare, anticipating the induced political equilibrium. We show that the fat tax in the political equilibrium is always lower …

There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes …

The administration of tax policy has shifted its focus from enforcement to complementary instruments aimed at creating … a social norm of tax compliance. In this paper we provide an analysis of the effects of the dissemination of information … regarding the past degree of tax evasion at the social level on the current individual tax compliance behavior. We build an …

There is often a gap between the prescriptions of an 'optimal' tax system and actual tax systems, some of which can be … reviews the political economics literature on tax systems and reforms to see whether political mechanisms allow us to better … understand why tax systems look the way they look. Finally, we exploit a database of reforms in labor taxation in the European …

that, relative to the other tax reforms, capital tax cuts lead to the highest aggregate welfare but are skill-biased and … labour, falls in the capital tax can result in welfare losses for unskilled workers, even in the absence of other frictions … show that including the transition period in the welfare evaluation lowers the inequality effects of capital tax reductions …

We estimate the responses of gross labor income with respect to marginal and average net-of-tax rates in France over … the period 2003-2006. We exploit a series of reforms to the income-tax and payroll-tax schedules affecting individuals who … net-of-income-tax rate is around 0.2, while we find no response to the marginal net-of-payroll-tax rate. The elasticity …