The costs of taxation in the presence of inequality
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Keywords
Marginal cost of public funds; lump-sum taxes; public goods;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
- H40 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - General
- H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-PBE-2019-06-17 (Public Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2019-06-17 (Public Finance)
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