We examine preferences for redistribution inherent in Swedish tax policy 1971-2012 using the inverse optimal tax …

We examine preferences for redistribution inherent in Swedish tax policy 1971-2012 using the inverse optimal tax …

Optimal tax theory has diffculty rationalizing high marginal tax rates at the upper end of the income distribution. In …

this return inequality? I study capital taxation in an economy in which return rates endogenously correlate with wealth … conventional wisdom, rather than calling for more redistribution, the presence of this scale dependence provides a rationale for … lower marginal tax rates. The endogeneity of returns generates an inequality multiplier effect between wealth and its …

Reducing income inequality is, in the eyes of many, one of the major political issues of this time. The conventional … political approach to reduce income inequality is to raise taxes for the wealthy and redistribute the proceeds to the poor. This … approach finds support in the economic literature, which postulates that redistribution through the tax system is more …

reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient …

reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient …

for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …