Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - 2016 - March 2016, revised May 2016
pension incomes ought to be taxed specifically. To do this, one has to distinguish between public and private pensions. The …There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes … are not clear. This note reviews the general principles of pension taxes and analyses the theoretical foundations of why …