The paper investigates inequality reducing taxation for various inequality views. Using the general definition of an inequality concept (Ebert (2004)) corresponding definitions of Lorenz dominance, inequality reduction and measures of tax progression are provided. The framework allows us to...

The paper characterizes the class of weakly decomposable (aggregable) inequality measures which satisfy a new (weak) decomposition (and agregation) property. These measures can be decomposed into the sum of the usual within-group and a between-group term which is based on the inequality between...