This article surveys the economic theory that designs the optimal nonlinear income tax schedule that trades off the equity gains of a more progressive income tax schedule against the incentives to work less induced by such a more progressive income tax schedule. We take into account not only the...

In France, the coexistence of three expensive policies intended to reduce the labor cost, a general payroll tax cut on low-paid jobs, the Tax Credit for Competition and Employment and the Responsibility Pact announced in early 2014 is a source of complexity that makes the overall tax-benefit...