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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 … appropriate direction for reform is towards more progressive taxation of both labour earnings and capital income, although not …
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Many nations are seeking to reform their welfare states so that costs to the government can be reduced and the quality of outcomes improved. As a potential way to achieve these aims, there has been a surge of interest in the Singaporean model which features compulsory savings accounts and...
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substitutes, this conclusion no longer holds. We analyse optimal capital income taxation for this case …
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context of longevity, capital income taxation provides a superior alternative: welfare gains are sufficient to outweigh the …
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We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We …
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How does the value of a firm change in response to a minimum wage hike? The evidence we have to date is not well-suited to answer this question, principally because events that have been studied are not completely unknown to the stock market or have uncertainty associated with them. This paper...
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This paper investigates the relationship between share prices and mental health, exploiting the availability of interview dates in the British Household Panel Survey to match the level and changes in the FTSE All Share price index to respondents over the period 1991-2008. We present evidence...
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applies the theory of optimal piecewise linear taxation to the issue of the taxation of top incomes. Our results suggest that … at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of the income distribution. This paper …
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Do workers gain from lower business taxes, and why? We estimate how a large corporate income tax credit in France is passed on to wages and explore the firm- and employee-level underlying mechanisms. The amount of tax credit firms get depends on their payroll share of workers paid less than a...
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We apply the Kakwani approach to decomposing redistributive effect into average rate, progressivity, and reranking components using yearly UK data covering 1977-2018. We examine cash and in-kind benefits, and direct and indirect taxes. In addition, we highlight an empirical implementation issue...
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