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Chapter 10 Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007
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...
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Money for Nothin’ – Digitalization and Fluid Tax Bases
Blix, Mårten - 2020
Technology and digitalization are transforming economic activity, but tax policies are lagging behind. The development also encompasses a broad shift in value-creation, with less emphasis on physical production and more on soft knowledge/intangibles, notably copyrights, firm- specific processes,...
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Tax Collection Costs, Tax Evasion and Optimal Interest Rates
Yesin, Pinar - 2006
I investigate to what extent the cross-country variation in nominal interest rates can be explained as being due to governments' optimal response to economic conditions such as tax collection costs, tax evasion and government consumption needs. In particular, I study the effects of costly income...
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Principles of Tax Modeling II : Flat or Non Flat? Which System is Better for Tax Collection Maximization
Martin Coronado, José-Manuel - 2017
This paper analyzes the quantitative benefits of switching from a flat tax regime to a progressive tax one, and viceversa. The tax model includes three scenarios of how the income of the tax payers are distributed and explain the different results. It also includes an extension of tax avoidance...
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Enforcement as Substance in Tax Compliance
Lederman, Leandra; Sichelman, Ted M. - 2013
It is well known that the government’s complete failure to enforce a law can nullify that law. But what are the effects of partial enforcement? This Article shows that imperfect enforcement can alter the de facto content of the written law in predictable and beneficial ways. Specifically, in...
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A unified perspective on efficiency, redistribution, and public policy
Kaplow, Louis - 2020
Specialized theoretical and empirical research should in principle be embedded in a unified framework that identifies the relevant interactions among different phenomena, enables an appropriate matching of policy instruments to objectives, and grounds normative analysis in individuals' utilities...
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Nonlinear taxation of income and education in the presence of income-misreporting
Bastani, Spencer; Gahvari, Firouz; Micheletto, Luca - 2022
We study the joint design of nonlinear income and education taxes when the government pursues redistributive objectives. A key feature of our setup is that the ability type of an agent can affect both the costs and benefits of acquiring education. Market remuneration of agents depends on both...
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Why the legal system is not necessarily less efficient than the income tax in redistributing income
Usher, Dan - 2009
redistribution is no business of the law. This efficiency-only doctrine is not that redistribution is unworthy as a social objective … initial distortion arising from redistribution pre se, through taxation or through law, and an additional distortion all its … inapplicable to most of what is commonly thought of as redistributive law. Redistribution is best supplied by a balance of law and …
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Optimal redistribution and monitoring of labor effort
Zoutman, Floris T.; Jacobs, Bas - 2014
This paper extends the Mirrlees (1971) model of optimal non-linear income taxation with a monitoring technology that allows the government to verify labor effort at a positive, but non-infinite cost. Monitored individuals receive a penalty, which increases if individuals earn a lower income...
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Optimal Redistribution and Monitoring of Labor Effort
Zoutman, Floris - 2014
This paper extends the Mirrlees (1971) model of optimal non-linear income taxation with a monitoring technology that allows the government to verify labor effort at a positive, but non-infinite cost. Monitored individuals receive a penalty, which increases if individuals earn a lower income...
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