In this paper, the authors analyze the behavior of local governments on capital taxation when the financial choices in …

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 …

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 …

-commerce for taxation, we are by no means at the beginning of the end, but we may, perhaps, be at the end of the beginning. …