Arbeitspapier
Production efficiency and profit taxation
Consider a simple general equilibrium economy with one representative consumer, a single competitive firm and the government. Suppose that the government has to finance public expenditures using linear consumption taxes and/or a lump-sum tax on profits redistributed to the consumer. We show that, if the tax rate on profits cannot exceed 100 percent, one cannot improve upon the second-best optimum of an economy with constant returns to scale by using a less efficient profit-generating decreasing returns to scale technology.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IFS Working Papers ; No. W18/13
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
- Thema
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optimal taxation
taxation of profits
production efficiency
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Gauthier, Stéphane
Laroque, Guy
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
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London
- (wann)
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2018
- DOI
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doi:10.1920/wp.ifs.2018.W1813
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Gauthier, Stéphane
- Laroque, Guy
- Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
Entstanden
- 2018