The Marginal Cost of Australian Income Taxation

Christopher C. Findlay and Robert L. Jones

The Economic Record, 1982, vol. 58, issue 3, 253-262

Abstract: When the financing of expenditure programmes involves a welfare cost, that cost should be considered part of the opportunity cost of the expenditure programme. In this paper, we explore some concepts of the welfare loss of taxing labour income. We correct some measures previously applied and estimate the marginal cost of Australian public funds. Using our measure of the cost of public funds, we explore the costs of policy options in the motor vehicle industry.

Date: 1982
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