The article examines two different approaches to estimating the effect of the tax burden on the amount of total output and budget revenues. The first approach is based on a transformation model, in which the main role is played by a production function with variable elasticity. The second...

The article presents a macroeconomic equilibrium model in which aggregate demand and aggregate supply are considered not in relation to the price level, as is traditionally done, but in terms of functions dependent on the average tax rate. The concepts of optimal and equilibrium tax rates are...

Based on an analysis of a modified version of the standard Keynesian model of a product market, it is shown that a change in the average tax rate has a complex effect on aggregate demand. Depending on the marginal propensity of households to consume and the marginal propensity for government...

Keynesian models deal with the situation when aggregate supply is not dependent on tax rates, while aggregate demand, especially the part of it that relates to consumption, is the function of taxes. Supply-side economics also considers only a single aspect of the tax issue in the Laffer Curve,...