Blackorby, Charles; Brett, Craig - In: Journal of Public Economic Theory 6 (2004) 1, pp. 165-180
In the design of the optimal direct/indirect tax mix, the canonical view was laid by Atkinson and Stiglitz (1976) who showed that commodity taxes are unnecessary in an economy in which there is an optimal nonlinear income tax provided that commodities are separable from labor in the utility...