Is Redistributive Taxation a Myth?

Shlomo Maital

Working Paper from Economics Department, Queen's University

Abstract: What impact do taxes and public spending have on income distribution? The sanguine conclusion that government budgets take from the rich and give to the poor stems largely from the persistent assumption of neutral expenditure incidence. Recently, Aaron and McGuire outlined the basis for a new method for determining the incidence of public expenditures. This paper makes their method operational to compare the net fiscal incidence for the U.S. in 1960,1968 and Canada in 1961. Redistributive taxation is qualitatively different and quantitatively smaller than previously believed.

Pages: 23
Date: 1973
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