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The paper analyses commodity taxation in an economy where a good can be recycled. Consumers deliver units of a used good to a reuse operator, who sells the good in a second-hand market after some processing. Two regimes are considered. One is a pure market setting where the reuse operator pays...
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The appropriate way of quantifying how taxation of a firm's income and capital can distort its optimizing conditions is a recurring issue in the literature on optimal taxation. Exponential decay, although empirically contested, is almost ubiquitous. In the present paper a generalized framework...
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Non-linear income taxes and linear commodity taxes are analysed when people differ with respect to ability, high-skilled agents have heterogeneous preferences, and neither individual abilities nor preferences are observable. The paper highlights how informational constraints may motivate...
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The incidence and efficiency losses of taxes have usually been analysed in isolation from public expenditures. This negligence of the expenditure side may imply a serious misperception of the effects of marginal tax rates. The reason is that part of the marginal tax may in fact be payment for...
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A simple benchmark case is established to derive the optimum commodity tax on an externality-generating good that may be purchased abroad directly by domestic consumers. As the tax should under-cut the Pigovian level, this simple case supports the intuition that taxes should be moderated when...
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