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This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can …
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In this paper we analyse how fairness considerations, in particular considerations of just income distribution, affect whether or not people find tax evasion justifiable and their willingness to evade taxes. Using data from the Norwegian “Hidden Labour Market Survey” we show that individuals...
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This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...
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measure tax behavior as elections, decided by the voting behavior in swing-states, push voters in partisan counties into and …
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actually occur. The paper also discusses the interaction between voting on taxes and the choice of audit rate by a budget …
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to prevent equivalence framing in the domain of voting on redistribution. Utilizing a simplified version of the Meltzer … collectively agreed level of redistribution are tremendously strong if the information tool is not available (low transparency … collective decision. Thus, the availability of the information tool has an asymmetric effect on the level of redistribution if …
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A benchmark result in the political economy of taxation is that majority voting over a linear income tax schedule will … role of tax avoidance for this welfare assessment. We find that the inefficiency in the voting equilibrium is the lower … enforcement policy. -- Tax avoidance ; welfare analysis ; majority voting ; median voter equilibrium …
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This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can …
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