Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - 2017
accidental bequests should be subject to a confiscatory tax. We propose to reexamine the optimal taxation of accidental bequests … an egalitarian perspective, it is optimal not to tax, but to subsidize accidental bequests. We examine the robustness of … accidental bequests depends on the form of the joy of giving motive, it remains true that the 100 % tax view does not hold under …