From optimal tax theory to tax policy retrospective and prospective views /

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Hlavní autor: Boadway, Robin W., 1943-
Korporativní autor: ebrary, Inc
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012.
Edice:Munich lectures in economics.
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Obsah:
  • Introduction
  • From tax theory to policy : an overview
  • Landmarks of optimal tax theory
  • The evolution of policy and advice
  • Challenges for the theory of tax policy
  • Commitment
  • Heterogeneity of individual utility functions
  • Behavioral issues
  • Responsibility and compensation
  • Political economy
  • Optimal analysis versus reform analysis
  • Summary of lessons for tax policy
  • Policy lessons from optimal tax theory
  • Uniformity of commodity taxes
  • The Corlett-Hague theorem
  • The Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem
  • Production efficiency : implications and caveats
  • Capital taxation and the personal tax base
  • Linear taxation in a dynamic setting
  • Nonlinear taxation in a dynamic setting
  • The issue of progressivity
  • Asymmetric information and market failure
  • Policy lessons from normative analysis
  • Relaxing the second-best constraints
  • The use of supplementary policy instruments
  • Making use of, and acquiring, more information
  • Conclusions
  • Challenges for second-best analysis
  • Fundamentals of the standard approach
  • The commitment issue
  • Heterogeneous preferences and utility
  • Behavioral issues
  • Political economy
  • Concluding comments.