Arbeitspapier

Optimal Taxation with Household Production.

This paper suggests that the optimal tax system should favour market-produced services which are close substitutes for home-produced services. First, we modify the classical Corlett-Hague rule for optimal commodity taxation by showing that it may be optimal to impose a relatively low tax rate on consumer services even if such services are complements to leisure. Second, we find that when services and other goods are equally substitutable for leisure, so that uniform commodity taxation would be optimal in the absence of home production, the optimal tax structure will certainly involve a relatively low tax rate on consumer services.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: EPRU Working Paper Series ; No. 1999-12

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen
Richter, Wolfram F.
Birch Sørensen, Peter
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Copenhagen, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU)
(wo)
Copenhagen
(wann)
1999

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen
  • Richter, Wolfram F.
  • Birch Sørensen, Peter
  • University of Copenhagen, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU)

Entstanden

  • 1999

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