history, and describes principles of tax administration and the construction of schedules. Tax shifting, optimal taxation … theory, and questions of tax justice are considered in depth. The book also contains a theory of business taxation and an … elaborate treatment of international taxation …

We develop a theory of commodity taxation featuring imperfect competition along with love-of-variety preferences and … application. Our welfare analysis shows that the marginal excess burden of taxation is very sensitive to the estimated love …-of-variety, which can overturn classical results on the desirability of ad valorem versus specific taxation …

reduction. This review particularly recommends shifting away from income taxation to indirect taxation, for instance by raising … reform to vehicle-related taxation. This Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of Australia (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-australia.htm). …

This framing paper has two main purposes. We first provide a brief survey of the economic literature on taxation in …

This paper analyzes the effects of specific and ad valorem taxation in an industry with downstream and upstream … increase is more likely to be welfare reducing. We also demonstrate that downstream and upstream taxation are equivalent in the … downstream. -- Specific tax ; ad valorem tax ; value-added tax ; tax incidence ; tax efficiency ; indirect taxation ; imperfect …