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help to understand and fight tax evasion. In this paper we analyze the effect of progressive taxation on tax morale in a …
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income data. Yet, what matters for incentives is how much an individual can consume or save after taxation. We show that net …
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This paper characterizes optimal income taxation when individuals respond along both the intensive and extensive …
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We propose a canonical model of optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation with matching unemployment. In our model …, agents are endowed with different skill levels and labor markets are perfectly segmented by skill. The government only … observes negotiated wages. More progressive taxation leads to wage moderation that boosts labor demand. We design the optimal …
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We investigate how potential tax-driven migrations modify the Mirrlees income tax schedule when two countries play Nash. The social objective is the maximin and preferences are quasilinear in income. Individuals differ both in skills and migration costs, which are continuously distributed. We...
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We evaluate the effectiveness of a more progressive tax scheme in raising government revenues. We develop a life … recommendations are misguided if the aim is to exclusively raise government revenue …
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In this paper we argue that, for a given overall level of labour income taxation, a more progressive tax schedule … on a panel of 21 OECD countries over 1998-2008. Controlling for the burden of taxation at the average wage, our estimates … are confirmed when we account for the potential endogeneity of both average taxation and progressivity. Overall, our …
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This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive taxation when individuals are heterogeneous in two exogenous … unemployment. Wages, labor demand and participation are endogenous. The government only observes wage levels. Under a Maximin …
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In this paper we use a panel of 189 countries to describe the salient trends that have emerged in national personal income tax systems spanning the twenty five year period from 1981 to 2005. Using complete national income tax schedules, we calculate actual average and marginal tax rates at...
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Should two-band income taxes be progressive given a general income distribution? We provide a negative answer under utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. While this result clarifies some ambiguities in the literature, it does not rule out progressive taxes in general. If we maximize total...
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