Arbeitspapier
Pareto-Improving Tax Reforms and the Earned Income Tax Credit
This paper provides necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Pareto-improving tax reforms. The conditions can be expressed as sufficient statistics and have a wide range of potential applications in public finance. We discuss one such application in detail: the introduction of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the US. We find that the EITC can be viewed as a response to an in-efficiency in the tax and transfer system prevailing at the time. This adds a new perspective to the literature on why the EITC is a good idea, emphasizing Pareto improvements rather than equity-efficiency trade-offs.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 8358
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Wirtschaft
Noncooperative Games
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
- Subject
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tax reforms
non-linear income taxation
optimal taxation
earned income tax credits
pareto efficiency
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bierbrauer, Felix
Boyer, Pierre C.
Hansen, Emanuel
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
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2020
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Bierbrauer, Felix
- Boyer, Pierre C.
- Hansen, Emanuel
- Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2020