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Using a simple model of income redistribution, we show that the government may use tax evasion as a way to redistribute … income from the non- evaders to evaders. This will result then to a negative association between income inequality and per …
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This paper seeks to examine the effect of income inequality on the structure of tax policies. We first use a simplified … remains robust across various alternative measures of income inequality and most importantly through alternative political … regimes. In addition, our analysis investigates the role of the tax structure on the relationship between income inequality …
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This paper seeks to examine the effect of income inequality on the structure of tax policies. We first use a simplified … remains robust across various alternative measures of income inequality and most importantly through alternative political … regimes. In addition, our analysis places the spotlight on the potential reverse causality between income inequality and …
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The article studies the optimal redistribution system, achieved by direct taxation, indirect taxation and public …
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in terms of inequality, poverty, redistribution and progressivity of the income tax system in Greece, Hungary and Italy …
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The paper studies credible information transmission by governments. A group of heterogenous individuals have to make private investment and labour supply decisions while relying on the government for information about investment returns. The government consists of an elected citizen who chooses...
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Relative consumption effects or status concerns that feature jealousy (in the sense of Dupor and Liu, AER 2003) boost consumption expenditure. If consumption is financed by labour income, such status considerations increase labour supply and, hence, the tax base. A higher taxable income, in...
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goals in re-distribution and social welfare, recognise the influence taxation has on businesses’ competitiveness and …’échelle macroéconomique, d’atteindre les objectifs sociétaux visés en termes de redistribution et de protection sociale, de prendre en compte …
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This paper analyzes the behavior of the tax revenue to output ratio over the business cycle. In order to replicate the empirical evidence, we develop a simple model combining the standard Ak growth model with the tax evasion phenomenon. When individuals conceal part of their true income from the...
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Random taxation may be optimal when the taxpayers differ in their attitudes towards risk, so that tax randomization enables the government to relax the incentive constraints. The paper provides a necessary and sufficient condition for local random deviations to be welfare improving in a...
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