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When a debtor goes bankrupt and limited assets have to be divided between competing creditors, should unpaid taxes owed to the government be paid before the debts owed to other creditors? This Article defends the notion that some tax debts should be awarded priority. Insofar as bankruptcy...
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The introduction of the 2006 Norwegian shareholder income tax was announced in advance, and it increased top marginal tax rates on individual dividend income from zero to 28 percent. We document strong timing effects on dividend payout on a large panel of non-listed corporations, with a surge of...
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accounting, auditing, tax returns and consequent quagmire of all tax related cases.Salient features of this new tax system....................Taxation …
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We investigate how personal income taxes affect the portfolio share of personal wealth that entrepreneurs invest in their own business. In a reformulation of the standard portfolio choice model that allows for underreporting of private business income to tax authorities, we show that a fall in...
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utility distribution, and then apply the model to examine the effects of a move from joint to individual taxation. We show …
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Although theoretical research on optimal capital taxation suggest to incorporate public opinions, the empirical … literature on preferences regarding capital taxation almost exclusively focusses on the emotionally loaded estate tax. This paper … presents a more comprehensive investigation of preferences towards different, tangible instruments of capital taxation beyond …
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having a comprehensive understanding of taxation rules. Our findings support the view that increasing complexity affects the …
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utility distribution, and then apply the model to examine the effects of a move from joint to individual taxation. We show …-household welfare distribution. -- Relational contracts ; households ; allocations ; taxation ; welfare distribution …
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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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utility distribution, and then apply the model to examine the effects of a move from joint to individual taxation. We show …
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