Arbeitspapier
Contribution to the theory of optimal utilitarian income taxation
The paper provides a new formulation of the Mirrlees-Seade theo- rem on the positivity of the optimal marginal income tax, under weaker assumptions and in a more general model. The formulation of the the- orem is independent of whether the model involves nitely many types or a continuous type distribution. The formal argument makes the un- derlying logic transparent, relating the mathematics to the economics and showing precisely how each assumption enters the analysis.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods ; No. 2007,2
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
- Subject
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Optimal Income Taxation
Utilitarian Welfare Maxi- mization
Redistribution
Optimale Besteuerung
Einkommensteuer
Steuertheorie
Theorie
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hellwig, Martin
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2007
- Handle
- Last update
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hellwig, Martin
- Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Time of origin
- 2007