How do taxes in the financial sector affect economic outcomes? We analyze a simple general equilibrium model with financial intermediation. We formalize a trade-off between tax policies that burden the owners of banks and tax policies that burden households. We also study the implications of the...

How do taxes in the financial sector affect economic outcomes? We analyze a simple general equilibrium model with financial intermediation. We formalize a trade-off between tax policies that burden the owners of banks and tax policies that burden households. We also study the implications of the...

Each May, Forbes magazine publishes a study on tax misery. The Forbes Tax Misery Index is a proxy for evaluating whether tax policy attracts or repels capital and talent. It is computed by adding the top marginal tax rate for the corporate income tax, individual income tax, wealth tax,...

There is an on-going debate about tax competition or tax harmonization. The high-tax welfare states want to keep tax rates high so that they can continue to fund their social welfare programs. But they are losing business and investments to lower tax jurisdictions where governments let people...

In this paper we introduce a general model of property tax increment financed redevelopment. The model illustrates how expenditures on public infrastructure and housing induce private capital investment and growth in property values. It can be used to frame the problem of how best to manage a...

Using the modern theory of public economics as the point of departure, this paper outlines a basic principle for setting taxes and/or prices of commodities based on two key criteria, efficiency and equity. The paper shows that for petroleum products, the basic principle needs modification in the...

Profits-only partnership interests grant service-providing partners an interest in the profits of a partnership but not its capital. Such interests are a proverbial double-edged sword: they create economic arrangements needed in business, but provide opportunities for inequitable tax reductions....

Recent commentators have criticized the double taxation of distributed corporate income both as an inequitable tax that imposes greater tax burdens on individual shareholders than other taxpayers and as an inefficient tax that distorts the economic decisions of taxpayers. These scholars have...

In recent years there has been great interest in the possibility of substituting environmentally motivated or quot;greenquot; taxes for ordinary income taxes. Some have suggested that such revenue- neutral reforms might offer a quot;double dividend:quot; not only (1) improve the environment but...

Excess taxation of capital gains is a by-product of inflation in a tax system that uses nominal values as its basis. Studies by Feldstein, Green and Sheshinsky [JPE 1978] and Feldstein and Slemrod [NBER WP 234, 1978] analyze related macroeconomic distortions associated with corporate stock...