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such interdependencies may enhance welfare and change the distribution of mitigation costs within and across generations …
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This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the … relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities …—and the mapping between these functions and various forms of taxation. Different types of taxation as well as expenditures on …
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This paper analyzes the effect of local income taxation on taxable income, inequality and internal migration in Italy …
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This paper holistically addresses the effective (relative) income tax contribution of a given income (or, wealth) group. The widely acclaimed standard in public policy is the absolute benefaction of a given income group in filling up the fiscal coffers. Instead, we focus on the ratio of the...
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This paper holistically addresses the effective (relative) income tax contribution of a given in-come (or, wealth) group. The widely acclaimed standard in public policy is the absolute benefaction of a given income group in filling up the fiscal coffers. Instead, we focus on the ratio of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731886
This paper holistically addresses the effective (relative) income tax contribution of a given in-come (or, wealth) group. The widely acclaimed standard in public policy is the absolute benefaction of a given income group in filling up the fiscal coffers. Instead, we focus on the ratio of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948621
Survey evidence shows that the magnitude of the tax liability plays a role in value judgements about which groups deserve tax breaks. We demonstrate that the German tax-transfer system conflicts with a welfarist inequality averse social planner. It is consistent with a planner who is averse to...
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A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare … for the working poor in practice. We reconcile this puzzle by generalizing the optimal taxation framework by Saez (2002 …
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A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare … for the working poor in practice. We reconcile this puzzle by generalizing the optimal taxation framework by Saez (2002 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011791708
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare … for the working poor in practice. We extend the optimal taxation framework by Saez (2002) to allow for alternatives to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897232