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The use of effective tax rates in tax policy

Fullerton, Don - 1986

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Tax Policy Toward Art Museums

Fullerton, Don - 2010

Although art museums do not pay any substantial taxes, they are greatly affected by various U.S. tax rules. The …

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Inputs to Tax Policymaking : The Supply Side, the Deficit, and the Level Playing Field

Fullerton, Don - 2021

Although supply side theory may have been obvious to economists, it instigated a major change in the nature of tax policymaking through marginal rate cuts in both the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 and the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Also, the 1981 bill was the culmination of an era in which...

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Which Effective Tax Rate?

Fullerton, Don - 2021

effective tax rates, some studies estimate the additional taxes associated with a marginal increase in the inflation and … interest rates, while others estimate the additional taxes associated with a marginal increase in investment. Because there are …

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Economic Efficiency in Recent Tax Reform History : Policy Reversals or Consistent Improvements?

Fullerton, Don; Mackie III, James B. - 2021

added significantly to business taxes. Was there any unifying theme to these tax changes, or do they represent frequent … the net effects on efficiency of each of these changes in capital income taxation. Under the new view that dividend taxes … generate improvements in efficiency. Under the old view that dividend taxes are important, however, these changes all increase …

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Distortionary Taxes and the Provision of Public Goods

Ballard, Charles; Fullerton, Don - 2021

When comparing marginal costs and benefits of a public project, most economists think in terms of adding together the marginal costs of production plus marginal costs of additional distortionary taxation. This paper clarifies how the "revenue effect" offsets the "distortionary effect." For...

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Garbage and Recycling in Communities with Curbside Recycling and Unit-Based Pricing

Kinnaman, Thomas C.; Fullerton, Don - 2021

This paper estimates the impact of a user fee and a curbside recycling program on garbage and recycling amounts, allowing for the possibility of endogenous policy choices. Previous estimates of the effects of these policies could be biased if unobserved variables such as local preference for the...

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How a Fee Per-Unit Garbage Affects Aggregate Recycling in a Model with Heterogeneous Households

Kinnaman, Thomas C.; Fullerton, Don - 2021

This paper develops a utility maximizing model of household choice among garbage disposal, recycling, and littering. The impact of a user fee for garbage collection is modelled for heterogeneous households with different preferences for recycling. The model explains (1) why some households...

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"Household Responses for Pricing Garbage by the Bag,"

Fullerton, Don; Kinnaman, Thomas C. - 2021

This paper estimates household reaction to the implementation of unit-pricing for the collection of residential garbage. We gather original data on weight and volume of weekly garbage and recycling of 75 households in Charlottesville, Virginia, both before and after the start of a program that...

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