This paper proposes a method of estimating marginal tax rates using nonparametric regression techniques, and the income and tax data obtained from the Individual Tax Model Files. Our method yields estimates of average marginal effective tax rates on personal income which are significantly...

This paper examines past policies as they relate to TVEs. Three key policy areas associated with efficiency and ease of operation are the focus of this analysis : availability of credit, taxation and the labour market.

The hypothesis that cooperation between fiscal and monetary authorities to minimize the distortionary costs of financing an exogenous stream of government expenditures implies a long-run relationship between inflation and tax rates is called the revenue-smoothing hypothesis. This paper uses the...