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Capital Taxation in a Simple Finite-Horizon Old Model

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Blackorby, C.
Brett, C.

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In a simple overlapping-generations model where the government has the power to levy commodity taxes and to implement inter-temporal transfers, we seek to characterise conditions under which capital taxation (or subsidization) does not form part of the optimal tax mix. It turns out that it can never be the case that captial taxes are identically zero along the Pareto frontier. Along the way, we derive and interpret the optimal tax formulae in the economy.

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Paper provided by UBC Department of Economics in its series UBC Departmental Archives with number 00-11.

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Keywords: OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS ; TAXES ; ECONOMIC REFORM;

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H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General

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