Is Revenue-Neutral Tax Reform Revenue Neutral?

Randall Holcombe and Jeffrey A. Mills
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Jeffrey A. Mills: Florida State University

Public Finance Review, 1994, vol. 22, issue 1, 65-85

Abstract: When political factors are taken into account, tax reform intended to be revenue neutral is likely to increase tax revenues. Any reduction in the excess burden of the tax system is likely to increase government revenues because the marginal political cost of tax increases is reduced. Evidence from the 1986 tax reform in the United States and the adoption of the value-added tax in many European countries, where the reforms were claimed to be revenue neutral, is consistent with the hypothesis that "revenue neutral" tax reform generates more government revenue.

Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1177/109114219402200104

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