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...

In this Article, I set forth a theory (“concentrated enforcement”) for allocating scarce enforcement resources within a low compliance tax sector. The intuition behind concentrated enforcement is that, under a number of different circumstances, there may be increasing marginal returns to...