This paper, originally designed to focus on discovering a suitable tax structure that befits an aspiring LMIE as it … composition of taxes without focussing in equal measure on the issue of the size of tax revenue at stake, namely the tax effort … over the recent decades. Finally, we delve into the issues of fundamental reforms of the tax system as well as of the …

This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An … example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible allocations … one tax system. However, this tax system is often undesirable since it severely restricts the choice space of agents in …

We characterize the second-best allocation in a Mirrleesian optimal tax model where agents differ in multiple … dimensions and the planner can tax multiple goods non-linearly. We develop a new method that allows us to solve the partial … properties of the optimum. First, the optimal tax system is described by a multidimensional version of Diamond's (1998) and Saez …

democracies; (2) the nature and determinants of modern tax structures; and (3) redistribution in pluralistic societies over … three most important issues in the field: (1) the evolution of the power to tax in (what are now) the mature constitutional …

the development in effective marginal tax rates and participation tax rates, and estimates, using the difference …-in-differences method, the impact of tax incentives on employment rates of elderly workers. After this background, we ponder possibilities … for reforming the Swedish tax system to improve its labour market impacts. We suggest better targeting the earned income …

This study examines how tax system design and reform affect labor supply. We conduct an online experiment with 522 … participants to assess labor responses to tax reforms that introduce or remove a notch, affecting after-tax income at either the … lower or upper end of the income distribution. Our findings indicate asymmetric responses to tax reform as well as …

This paper investigates whether tax evasion can be beneficial for an optimal income tax schedule. Past theoretical … tax revenues. In this study, we conducted an original real effort experiment in an online labor market with almost 1 … to evade (increased labor supply by 37%). More importantly, the expected tax revenue significantly and substantially …

This paper studies the impact of tax incentives on economic behavior within the household. We focus on an Italian tax … policy that grants a large tax credit to main earners if their spouses, designated as “dependent spouses” by the tax law … second-earner women adjust their income to benefit from the tax credit, while second-earner men do not. Second-earner women …

the joint determination of the non-linear monitoring and tax schedules and the conditions under which these can be … implemented. Monitoring of labor effort reduces the distortions created by income taxation and raises optimal marginal tax rates …, possibly above 100 percent. The optimal intensity of monitoring increases with the marginal tax rate and the labor …

income redistribution and employment creation. In particular, the introduction of both a guaranteed annual income (basic … income) and an employment subsidy are examined, and these policies are compared to a straightforward tax cut for (unskilled …) labour. All initiatives are financed by a tax on capital. In the open-economy setting, capital is perfectly mobile, so there …