This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can …

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 …

Social Protection Floor satisfying revenue-neutrality. To this end, firstly, a Universal Basic Income (UBI) scheme is … explored. Secondly, the UBI is transformed into a Negative Income Tax (NIT) scheme, providing universal protection instead of … assistance scheme. It features a 100% withdrawal rate, consequently allowing for a higher guaranteed minimum income level than …

This paper examines whether income transparency - the public release of citizens' income information - affects support … release income information on Finland's top earners to the public. To identify causal effects we compare respondents who took … for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities …

We study political competition in an environment in which voters have private information about their preferences. Our … framework covers models of income taxation, public-goods provision or publicly provided private goods. Politicians are vote …

the income tax, assigning it a role as a redistributional backstop mechanism. However, when measured against annual income … income. We argue that instead of using yearly income, one should measure wealth tax burdens with respect to individual … lifetime income in family dynasties. Using rich Norwegian administrative data, we describe how a lifetime-dynastic income …

, especially if taxes and income support are included, in many countries in the developing world and the US. A focus on inequality …

redistribution by individuals with high income and to a lower demand for redistribution by those with low income. … unselfish though rational demand for redistribution. This leads the well off to prefer higher taxes and the poor to reject …