Most governments will have to raise additional resources to deal with the aftermath of the corona crisis. This paper argues that excise duties on drinking, smoking, gambling, sugar-sweetened beverages, plastics, fossil fuels, motoring, telecoms and platforms are the preferred instruments. In...

This paper assesses how a permanent shift from financing a public pay-as-you-go pension by direct (labour income) taxation towards financing it by indirect(consumption) taxation affects the economy and welfare. To this end, we use anoverlapping-generations-augmented two-region general...

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword by James A. Baker III -- Preface -- Introduction: Is It Time for Fundamental Tax Reform? -- I Overviews -- 1 Tax Reform in the Twenty-first Century -- 2 Simplifying Assumptions: How Might the Politics of...