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determinants of the optimal level of consumption taxation in relation to other taxes, as well as the optimal differentiation of … trade-offs in consumption taxation as well as point out important areas where more research is needed. …
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the Covid-19 pandemic, the shift to destination-based taxation has redistributed revenues between large and small local …
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Despite its theoretical merits, Land Value Taxation (LVT) is not a common policy instrument in most countries. One of …
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Using high-frequency administrative data covering millions of US homeowners, I document three novel facts about homeowner responses to property tax increases driven by rising home values. First, non-migrating homeowners cut consumption, exhibit financial distress, and do not borrow against their...
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This paper develops an expanded framework for social planning in which the existence of coercion is explicitly acknowledged. Key issues concern the precise definition of coercion for individuals and in the aggregate, its difference from redistribution, and its incorporation into normative...
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dual role corporate taxation plays in attracting mobile capital, on the one hand, and in absorbing economic rents, on the …) taxation, while a large part of the tax competition literature views business taxes as unit (wealth) taxation. We point to the … system of ad valorem taxes than in a system of unit taxes and (ii) that ad valorem taxation may be the equilibrium outcome in …
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Applying a framework of perfect competition under uncertainty, we contribute to the discussion of whether or not ad valorem taxes and specific taxes are equivalent. While this equivalence holds without price uncertainty, we show that ad valorem taxes and specific taxes are "almost never"...
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The purpose of this paper is to survey the theoretical literature on wealth transfer taxation. The focus is normative …
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is more pronounced than in partial equilibrium. The joint analysis of tax incidence and optimal taxation reveals that the …
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flat and differentiated nominal tax rates on some forms of capital income. This paper discusses the rationale for the … adoption of semi-dual income tax in the taxation of public, occupational and private pensions and other retirement income …, taking the Portuguese experience as a possible guide to other countries. The particular effects of pension taxation on the …
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