Bridging the Tax-Expenditure Gap: Green Taxes and the Marginal Cost of Funds

Agnar Sandmo

Working Papers from Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration-

Abstract: The marginal cost of public funds is usually seen as a number greater than one, reflecting the efficiency cost of distortionary taxes. But economic intuition suggests that since green taxes are efficiency-enhancing the MCF with such taxes will be less than one. The paper demonstrates that this intuition is not necessarily true, even when a green tax is the sole source of funds. The analysis also considers the MCF with a proportional income tax, given the presence of green taxes. It compares the optimization approach to the MCF with that of a balanced budget reform and shows that they lead to equivalent results.

Keywords: TAXES; PUBLIC GOODS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D62 H21 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2001
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