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On the equivalence between progressive taxation and inequality reduction

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  • Biung-Ghi Ju

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  • Juan Moreno-Ternero

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We establish the precise connections between progressive taxation and inequality reduction, in a setting where the level of tax revenue to be raised is exogenously fixed and tax schemes are balanced. We show that, in contrast with the traditional literature on taxation, the equivalence between inequality reduction and the combination of progressivity and income order preservation does not always hold in this setting. However, we show that, among rules satisfying consistency and, either revenue continuity, or revenue monotonicity, the equivalence remains intact.

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Article provided by Springer in its journal Social Choice and Welfare.

Volume (Year): 30 (2008)
Issue (Month): 4 (May)
Pages: 561-569

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Handle: RePEc:spr:sochwe:v:30:y:2008:i:4:p:561-569

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  1. Yoichi Kasajima & Rodrigo Velez, 2011. "Reflecting inequality of claims in gains and losses," Economic Theory, Springer, vol. 46(2), pages 283-295, February.
  2. Biung-Ghi Ju & Juan Moreno-Ternero, 2011. "Progressive and merging-proof taxation," International Journal of Game Theory, Springer, vol. 40(1), pages 43-62, February.
  3. Carmen Herrero & Juan Moreno-Ternero & Giovanni Ponti, 2009. "On the adjudication of conflicting claims: an experimental study," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer, vol. 33(3), pages 517-519, September.
  4. JU, Biung-Ghi & MORENO-TERNERO, Juan D., 2006. "Progressivity, inequality reduction and merging-proofness in taxation," CORE Discussion Papers 2006075, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
  5. Bosmans, Kristof & Schokkaert, Erik, 2009. "Equality preference in the claims problem. A questionnaire study of cuts in earnings and pensions," Open Access publications from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven urn:hdl:123456789/222068, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
  6. Kasajima, Yoichi & Velez, Rodrigo A., 2010. "Non-proportional inequality preservation in gains and losses," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 46(6), pages 1079-1092, November.

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