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redistribution. Within a Mirrleesian economy with earnings, consumption and retirement savings, we derive a novel formula for optimal … income and savings distortions based on redistributional arbitrage. We establish a sufficient statistics representation of … suggest that it is optimal to shift a substantial fraction of the top earners' tax burden from income to savings. …
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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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The elasticity of taxable income is a key tax policy parameter that plays an important role in the formulation of tax and transfer policy. This paper extends work by Kemp (2019) by using a new panel of individual tax returns and the phenomenon of 'bracket creep' to produce updated estimates of...
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