Bericht

Fantastic tax cuts and where to find them

An important question in public economics is whether, and under what conditions, it may be possible to design a self-financing tax cut. This column provides new theoretical insights on the requirements for a tax reform that makes everyone better off. Furthermore, it shows that if there is no self-financing tax cut with changes to one or two income brackets, then a more complicated reform will also not work. It applies these insights to the US Earned Income Tax Credit reform in 1975. Although this reform had the correct properties, the analysis concludes that it was not fully self-financing. [...]

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ECONtribute Policy Brief ; No. 051

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bierbrauer, Felix
Boyer, Pierre C.
Hansen, Emanuel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Reinhard Selten Institute (RSI)
(wo)
Bonn and Cologne
(wann)
2023

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Bericht

Beteiligte

  • Bierbrauer, Felix
  • Boyer, Pierre C.
  • Hansen, Emanuel
  • University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Reinhard Selten Institute (RSI)

Entstanden

  • 2023

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