Arbeitspapier

Tax Policy with Uncertain Future Costs: Some Simple Models

This paper considers the extent to which the standard argument, that the disproportionate excess burden of taxation suggests the use of tax-smoothing in the face of future cost increases, is modified by uncertainty regarding the future. The role of uncertainty and risk aversion are examined using several highly simplified models involving a possible future contingency requiring an increase in tax-financed expenditure.

ISBN
978-0-478-40304-6
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: New Zealand Treasury Working Paper ; No. 13/07

Classification
Wirtschaft
Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: General‡
Subject
Tax Smoothing
Uncertainty
Risk Aversion
Excess Burden
Steuerpolitik
Entscheidung unter Unsicherheit
Risikoaversion
Intertemporale Entscheidung
Excess Burden
Optimale Besteuerung
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Ball, Christopher
Creedy, John
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
New Zealand Government, The Treasury
(where)
Wellington
(when)
2013

Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Ball, Christopher
  • Creedy, John
  • New Zealand Government, The Treasury

Time of origin

  • 2013

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