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Inequality reducing properties of progressive income tax schedules: The case of endogenous income

The case for progressive income taxation is often based on the classic result of Jakobsson, 1976 and Fellman, 1976, according to which progressive and only progressive income taxes - in the sense of increasing average tax rates on income - ensure a reduction in income inequality. This result has been criticized on the grounds that it ignores the possible disincentive effect of taxation on work effort, and the resolution of this critique has been a longstanding problem in public finance. This paper provides a normative rationale for progressivity that takes into account the effect of an income tax on labor supply. It shows that a tax schedule is inequality reducing only if it is progressive - in the sense of increasing marginal tax rates on income - and identifies a necessary and sufficient condition on primitives under which progressive and only progressive taxes are inequality reducing.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Theoretical Economics ; ISSN: 1555-7561 ; Volume: 13 ; Year: 2018 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 39-60 ; New Haven, CT: The Econometric Society

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
Thema
Progressive taxation
income inequality
incentive effects of taxation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol
Llavador, Humberto G.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The Econometric Society
(wo)
New Haven, CT
(wann)
2018

DOI
doi:10.3982/TE2533
Handle
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol
  • Llavador, Humberto G.
  • The Econometric Society

Entstanden

  • 2018

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