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 …

Political economy aspects make progressive income taxation and taxation of capital income imperative in practise … politically feasible change-over to a status of improved taxation is little. We provide an extended dynamic general equilibrium …

This is the seventh issue of 'Taxation Trends in the European Union', an expanded and improved version of a previous … publication, 'Structures of the taxation systems in the European Union'. The objective of the report remains unchanged: to present … a complete view of the structure, level and trends of taxation in the Union over a medium- to long-term period. …

Taxation trends in the European Union: 2010 covers the development of taxation in all 27 Members of the European Union …, Iceland and Norway in a comparable format since 1995. This edition of the publication 'Taxation trends in the European Union … format. The publication is divided into three parts. Part I reviews the major trends and developments in taxation in the …