transfers and public goods are each integrated into a common optimal tax framework with the income tax and commodity taxes at …

for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …

Is the labor supply of individuals influenced by their perception of how their income taxes will reflow to them or be …-effort game that vary in the degree of redistribution. At one extreme, the Leviathan scenario, where no tax revenue is … there may exist any country differences in attitude toward taxation and redistribution. We find that effort is significantly …