This paper studies the optimal design of differentiated consumption taxes in the presence of progressive labor income … taxes and capital income taxation. A quantitative heterogeneousagent model with non-homothetic preferences and uninsurable …. Solving the Ramsey problem in which the government jointly chooses labor income and commodity taxes, the optimal policy …

This paper investigates how government spending multipliers depend on the distribution of taxes across households. We … when financed with more progressive taxes, and zero otherwise. We rationalize this finding within a heterogeneous …-income earners. In turn, spending financed with more progressive taxes induces a smaller crowding-out, and thus larger multipliers …

lower taxes on heirs receiving smaller inheritances and those with moderate incomes, making the tax system better attuned to …