Arbeitspapier
Time Consistent Policy and the Structure of Taxation
It is now well known that "optimal" government policies may not be time consistent--that is, ex post optimal. Time consistency considerations can be shown to reverse the conclusions about the relative merits of different tax structures that are drawn from Ramsey type analysis. In this paper I show with the help of a simple overlapping generations model that this is the case for the "presumption" that direct taxes, for which tax rates can be made contingent on household characteristics, weakly dominate indirect taxes, which are levied on transactions. The ability of the government, with direct taxation, to levy different tax rates on households in different periods of their life-cycles introduces a time consistency problem that is not present with the "anonymous" tax rates levied under indirect taxation.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Queen's Economics Department Working Paper ; No. 777
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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time consistency
direct and indirect taxation
overlapping generations
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bruce, Neil
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Queen's University, Department of Economics
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Kingston (Ontario)
- (wann)
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1990
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bruce, Neil
- Queen's University, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 1990
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