Optimal marginal and average income taxation under maximin
Robin Boadway and
Laurence Jacquet
Journal of Economic Theory, 2008, vol. 143, issue 1, 425-441
Abstract:
Using the Mirrlees optimal income tax model under maximin, we derive fairly mild conditions for a decreasing marginal tax rate throughout the skill distribution with no bunching, a strictly concave tax function in income and a single-peaked average tax schedule. Assuming additive preferences and an isoelastic disutility of labor function, these tax profiles are implied by aggregate skills that are non-decreasing with the skill level. If preferences are quasilinear in leisure or in consumption, these tax profiles are also obtained under a large set of skill distributions.
Keywords: Maximin; Optimal; income; taxation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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