A "sales tax holiday" is a period of time, usually lasting a few days, during which state and sometimes local sales taxes are not levied on a set of goods, typically clothing, footwear, and school supplies. Prior to enacting, eliminating, or altering a tax holiday, policy-makers should...

Theory and evidence on government taxation policy. Topics include tax incidence; optimal tax theory; the effect of taxation on labor supply and savings; corrective taxes for externalities; taxation and corporate behavior; and tax expenditure policy. From the course home page: Course Description...

En este documento se analiza el impacto distributivo de la elevada inflación experimentada por los consumidores en la eurozona y las medidas que los Gobiernos han implementado para compensar a los hogares en 2022. El estudio utiliza el modelo de microsimulación de impuestos y beneficios para...

There has been major contest over the taxation of business income. Questions are twofold: the factual one of defining the boundaries of the business activity. Second, that of determining whether a particular gain comes within the ambit of ‘business’.Recent NZ cases have sought to apply the...

This article deals with fundamental and topical problems of taxation policy, viewing the subject from both a German and an international perspective. Traditional income tax regimes in developed countries with their progressive tax rates are still based upon the redistributive philosophy which...

This thesis proposes and evaluates the tax affinity hypothesis claiming that people derive utility from paying tax. Slutsky-like equations are derived for the unique three-good utility maximization problem with leisure as the only choice variable. There is evidence for the tax affinity...

A flat rate comprehensive federal income tax could be achieved by replacing graduated rates with a single rate that applies to all taxpayers, eliminating many currently available deductions and credits, and treating as taxable income types of economic gain presently excluded from the tax base....

The article expresses the view that the current Internal Revenue Code has evolved into a hybrid income tax and consumption tax. It begins by explaining the difference between an income tax and a consumption tax and provides the backgrounds of the alternative forms of consumption tax: (1)...

This article discusses probably the most significant obstacle to the adoption of a consumption tax: the negative effects on existing wealth that the transition from the income tax to most forms of a consumption tax would have. The Congressional Budget Office in its 1997 study posed the question,...

¿Tiene la economía española un nivel óptimo de progresividad en el impuesto sobre la renta de las personas físicas (IRPF)? Este artículo cuantifica las consecuencias agregadas, distribucionales y de bienestar de establecer la progresividad del IRPF en su nivel óptimo. Con objeto de...