 Per una riforma dell’IRPEF: la progressività continua dell’aliquota media (Towards a reform of the Italian personal income tax: The progressive average tax rate as a continuous function)Ernesto Longobardi (), Corrado Pollastri and Alberto Zanardi Politica economica, 2020, issue 1, 141-158 Abstract: This paper presents a reform of the structure of the Italian personal incometax (IRPEF) which combines a plurality of objectives: simplifying the tax and smoothing thecurves of the tax rates; increasing the transparency and comprehensibility of the tax for thetaxpayer; providing tax authorities with a tool that can be used for purposes of redistributionin a simple and effective way. A tax function radically different from the current one is proposed,moving from the progressivity by marginal tax rates/income brackets to a continuousaverage tax rate schedule. Specifically, the curve of the average tax rates is derived by imposingconstant elasticity of the after-tax income (residual income progression) for a large rangeof taxable incomes. The paper presents some tentative simulations of the effects of this reformon tax yield and redistribution based on tax returns data in 2018. Keywords: personal income tax; progressivity; tax reform; Italy. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mul:je8794:doi:10.1429/97788:y:2020:i:1:p:141-158 Access Statistics for this article Politica economica is currently edited by Giuseppe Marotta More articles in Politica economica from Società editrice il Mulino |
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