The political economics of not paying taxes
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Keywords
Political equilibrium; Redistribution; Tax avoidance; Non-median voter equilibrium;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
- H24 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-PBE-2003-06-16 (Public Economics)
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